If H.H. Lomax is to be believed, his toothache started the chain of events leading to the most infamous gunfight in all of the Old West. On top of that, he claims to have fired the first shot in the Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral . Whether rustling cats or tending bar, Lomax had a talent for making more enemies than friends. By the time of the shootout everyone--from the Earps to the Clantons and from Johnny Ringo to his own lawyer--is out to get him, and even Tombstone residents who don't have a grudge with Lomax are placing bets on where he'll get shot when all the scores are finally settled. What Lomax lacks in luck, he offsets with pluck and even if he shades the truth here and there, he does so with a wry perspective that offers an insightful and humorous take on the people and events behind the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. When all the shooting finally stops, Lomax has only his malicious cat Satan for a friend, but at least he is able to ride out of Tombstone alive, unlike so many of the other players in the O.K. Corral saga. You can take Lomax's word on it! Or can you? It takes a ton of talent to inject humor into so grim a subject as the West's most infamous gunfight, but it's our good fortune that Preston Lewis has it to spare. Who'd have thought a bad tooth and Doc Holliday's halitosis would have such harrowing--and hilarious--results? Lewis, that's who. So will you, once you've finished laughing and thrilling your way through Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral . --Loren D. Estleman, author of Cape Hell Preston Lewis' Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral is a non-prescription mood elevator. In addition to all those feel-good endorphins you'll get from laughing so much, you'll learn, as one of his memorable characters maintains, that less is more. That's often true, but with this fun Western set in wild and wooly 1880s Tombstone, Arizona, you'll want more, not less. --Mike Cox, author of Wearing the Cinco Peso and Time of the Rangers Spur Award winner Lewis crafts action, suspense and humor in a flavorful read. -- Books of the Southwest Whether Lomax really lived or is merely a product of Lewis's fevered imagination, Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral is a delight which only whets the appetite for another volume of the memoirs of this lovable scoundrel. -- The Roundup Praise for The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax Series Fans of the Western as a genre will delight in Lewis' ongoing spoof of many traditions which fiction writers from Owen Wister to Elmer Kelton captured well enough to turn into key parts of our myths and folklore....Lewis's wit is at times Puckishly wry, at other times bawdy in the manner of Chaucer. It is always engaging. --Texas Books in Review A new series by Preston Lewis features a protagonist, H.H. Lomax, who isn't much of a gunfighter, horseman or gambler. Instead, he is a likeable loser who runs into old western celebrities like Billy the Kid and the Jesse James gang, and barely escapes. --Wall Street Journal It takes a special talent to write first-person novels based on the premise of "lost papers," but Preston Lewis is an especially fresh and innovative writer and he knows how to do it. --Rocky Mountain News Several Old West historians have blessed the Lomax books as expertly crafted fiction. --Dallas Morning News