The Killing of Jericho Slade

By Paxton Johns

When Jericho Slade, the 5-year-old son of Senator Morton J. Slade is killed in Dodge City, someone's neck is bound to get stretched. The ex-convict, Billy Flint, makes a likely suspect but when Born Gallant blunders into Dodge City and sees the innocence on the accused face, he reacts in his usual eccentric manner, snatching young Billy Flint from certain death. Reunited with old friends, Gallant sets out to hunt down Slade's real killer but, in order to expose the truth of the murdered boy, Gallant must learn that being the hero does not always mean doing the right thing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Hale Fiction
• Release date: Apr 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9780719822841

Paxton Johns

Born in Liverpool in 1936, raised in North Wales during the war years, Paxton Johns, aka Will Keen, began writing short stories while in the army and living with wife and children in Germany and Gibraltar in the 1960s. While living in Australia had general and romance stories published in national magazines, later several crime stories in The Alfred Hitchcock Magazine, New York. Worked for ten years in the 80s/90s as a freelance feature writer and photographer.