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Geoffrey of Monmouth's infamous 'History of the Kings of Britain' is one of the most daringly daft gems in the annals of British history. Although largely made up by a Welsh-Breton-Norman cleric as propaganda for the Norman nobility, it put flesh on the bones of King Arthur and exasperated generations of historians – so is well worth a fresh read in the 21st century, if just to remind us that there's nothing new about fake news…

This is both a western and a murder mystery. In 1870 Deputy US Marshal Davy Reece postpones plans to return to his former life as a scout in order to investigate the murder of his friend and colleague, Marshal McLuhan. He has to deal with two equally eccentric but very different sheriffs and with the madame of the brothel where the marshal was killed. He learns the killer was a woman, probably a cowgirl, who may be among a largely female crew on a cattle-drive across the western plains from Wyoming to Kansas.

This may rightly be considered one of the first published sources of the King Arthur legend. The translation by Sebastian Evans of this selection of Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle of ancient British kings differs in several respects from more popular versions of Arthurian tales published centuries later. Notably absent here are the Round Table of knights, the Holy Grail, Guenevere's affair with Sir Lancelot, and the Lady of the Lake.