

Lucky at Cards
Author: Lawrence Block
Narrator: Alan Sklar
Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/01/2007
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled
Author: Lawrence Block
Narrator: Alan Sklar
Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/01/2007
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled
Lawrence Block is the recipient of a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a New York Times bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series and dozens of short stories and articles. He has won multiple Edgar, and Shamus awards, two Falcon Awards from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, the Nero and Philip Marlowe Awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of America, and many others. Aside from being a mystery writer, he has also written a number of episodes for television, including two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt; he also cowrote the screenplay for the film My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones. Block currently lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.
Alan Sklar, a graduate of Dartmouth, has excelled in his career as a freelance voice actor. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him several Earphones Awards, a Booklist Editors’ Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. He has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA, Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY.
Bill Maynard was a stage magician playing cut-rate, third class hotels and resorts, occasional kids' parties, even strip joints. No money and few prospects, he is recruited to become a mechanic, a card sharp, a cheat. He is very good at it and makes good money. This novel begins as his life begins to......more
Fifty years old, that's how old this book is. And Lawrence Block is still pumping them out and marketing like a madman. I love this pulpy cover however it was an audio that I listened to and it couldn't have been any better had I read it. Great storyline, great characterization, great cover, great t......more
Lucky at Cards is a pulpy noir story that is part of the Hard Case Crime series I just discovered re-releasing a lot of stand-alone books by classic mystery writers such as Ed McBain, Donald Westlake, Mickey Spillane and others. I am also simultaneously listening to two LOOONG books, Emma by Jane Au......more