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Dead Man's Hand
Crime Fiction at the Poker Table
Otto Penzler
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9780151012770 Hardcover
0151012776
$25.00
400pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2007
Territory:
US, C, O
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Table of Contents
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Synopsis |
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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 Mosley’s 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 Connelly’s 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 world—including Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, and others—combine to form a winning hand.
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Biography |
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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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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Mystery & Detective/Short Stories
Fiction- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Serial/Audio/Performance/Translation: Sobel Weber Associates
UK: Quercus Books |
Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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