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Hard-boiled detective gambling with life and death.
If you relish a classic detective's gritty charm intersecting with a high-stakes mystery, "Joker In The Deck" will be your guilty pleasure. Shell Scott's adventurous antics through a maze of crooks and cons are as thrilling as they are treacherously witty. You'll be dealt a hand of suspense blended with a touch of vintage swagger.
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ISBN: 9780759226227
Authors:
Richard S. Prather
Publisher: E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd
Date of Publication: 2002-05-22
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.72
(rated by 43 readers)
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Shell Scott has been dealt a really lousy hand and the stakes are somebody's life-probably his. What will the luck of the draw bring to our hard-boiled hero? Will Shell find the culprit in this full house of crooks and cons or will the queen of hearts call his bluff? A four of a kind is no match for a .44 slug in this all-hours game of guns and girls, guts and grit, life and death. Here the women are crazy and the joker's wild, but so is Shell Scott!
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Hard-boiled detective gambling with life and death.
If you relish a classic detective's gritty charm intersecting with a high-stakes mystery, "Joker In The Deck" will be your guilty pleasure. Shell Scott's adventurous antics through a maze of crooks and cons are as thrilling as they are treacherously witty. You'll be dealt a hand of suspense blended with a touch of vintage swagger.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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