…another terrific book launch from the Crooked Cat Publishing stable a week ago features the splendid novel, Five Guns Blazing, co-authored by Emma Rose Millar and Kevin Allen… this post’ll put yeez in the mood… (and don’t even thinkabout stealing a loaf of bread!)…

‘Oh don’t hang me, sir, I beg of you!’ The court seemed suddenly excited by her outburst. It was all entertainment to them; the law after all is only theatre; it did not matter much if one was hanged or not, it was all part of the drama. ‘I only did it for my daughter, who was sick and in need of medicine. My husband’s dead, sir, what is a woman to do?’ I felt a blush burning from my collarbone to my temples and someone laughed and shouted, ‘She is a liar, sir! The girl is the bastard child of two thieves!’