Dead Mans Hand, Otto Penzler
Dead Mans Hand, Otto Penzler
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Dead Man's Hand
Crime Fiction at the Poker Table

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright, Gail Shalan, Leon Nixon

Unabridged: 15 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2021


Synopsis

Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery.

In "One Dollar Jackpot," Michael Connelly's curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up "Bump," a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. "Hardly Knew Her" by Laura Lippmann showcases a young woman learning about bluffing the hard way, while "In the Eyes of Children" by Alexander McCall Smith features a scam at a poker table on the high seas.

With these, and more offerings from mystery greats such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Lescroart, Walter Mosley, Peter Robinson, and Eric Van Lustbader, Dead Man's Hand is a suspenseful anthology that's a big winner for any fan of crime fiction.

About Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.


Reviews

My quest to read all of Michael Connelly's short stories continues with this poker/gambling/cards-themed collection. Connelly's story is One-Dollar Jackpot. The obvious tie-in here is that Harry Bosch's ex-wife was a professional poker player, so Bosch had heard of the murder victim who also played......more

Goodreads review by Wayland

A somewhat uneven collection, as can happen. Some of these stories were great, some less so. I question the wisdom of the strip poker story (you know there had to be one) having a minor protagonist, for one thing, but the one set in Hollywood was really well done. Overall, I'd recommend the anthology......more

Goodreads review by Jay

Rating - 6.6 Some so-so reads but mostly a lot of shorts that leave the reader unfulfilled (even the Deaver was un-Deaveresque); Might give mystery-shorts one more go as there could have been so much more Poker is a game of intrigue, profile & manipulation which is lacking throughout (spare the odd st......more

Goodreads review by James

In “One Dollar Jackpot,” Michael Connelly’s curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up “Bump,” a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. These are some very good stories written by well-renowned and res......more