Dead Man's Hand
Crime Fiction at the Poker Table
Penzler, Otto (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at the poker table and beyond. In Walter Mosleys Mister In-Between, a bagman is sent to collect from a rig
BOOK SYNOPSIS
If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at the poker table and beyond. In Walter Mosleys Mister In-Between, a bagman is sent to collect from a rigged poker game, but soon begins to wonder who the real mark is. In One Dollar Jackpot, Michael Connellys detective Harry Bosch finds himself looking for tells when facing off against a professional poker player in the interrogation room. And a young woman learns how to bluff the hard way in Hardly Knew Her, by Laura Lippman. In these and others stories, aces of the mystery-writing worldincluding Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, and otherscombine to form a winning hand.
AUTHOR BIO
OTTO PENZLER is the founder of the Mysterious Press and owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York. He has written and edited several books, including the Edgar-winning Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Best American Mystery Stories series. He lives in New York.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0151012776
ISBN(13-digit): 9780151012770
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2007009583
Book Publisher: Harcourt
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 384
