DEAD MAN'S HAND: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table
by Penzler, Otto (Edited by)
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0151012776
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012770
- Seller
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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 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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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024530
- Title
- DEAD MAN'S HAND: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table
- Author
- Penzler, Otto (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151012776
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012770
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 400
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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