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In Preeti Shenoy’s exciting new short story, a young girl, fresh off a break-up, repeatedly finds playing cards turning up on her path. At first she is dismissive, but they keep reappearing. Do the cards mean something? What are they trying to tell her? Will she find new love?

Every girl dreams of meeting her celebrity crush. Unfortunately, my dreams weren't coming true. I was on national television, standing in front of my celebrity nemesis, and ten hours earlier, I had his tongue down my throat.

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

Duel McClain has lost everything he's ever loved: his wife, his son, his sense of self. But when a strange twist of fate - and a poker game he'll never forget - leaves an innocent little girl in his care, Duel vows to defend his new family to his very last breath. If only he knew a single thing about taking care of babies...Just as Duel swears his life can't get any more complicated, a beautiful woman stumbles into the light of his campfire, desperate for help. Jessie Foltry is hungry, tired, and running for her life.

Tyler Rigby left his ritzy nightlife in New York City when he sold his half of the Online poker company for more than six billion dollars. When he needs a date for a high society function, he looks no further than the beach yoga instructor his dog has led him to several times. But Tawny Loveless isn't impressed with Tyler's lack of social skills - even if he did bring her favorite drink as a peace offering. When her dangerous ex-boyfriend shows up at the gala, she introduces Tyler as her fiance, much to his surprise.

"Questions are posed," writes Norman Mailer, "in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions." In this series of conversations, John Buffalo Mailer, 27, poses a series of questions to his father, challenging the reflections and insights of the man who has dominated and defined much of American letters for the past sixty years.

Killer Cards, nombre con el que bautiza la prensa a quien va dejando a su paso cadáveres de personalidades de la sociedad con un as de la baraja de póker en la ropa, tiene un plan trazado con meticulosidad para alcanzar su objetivo y burlar a los investigadores. El caso se convertirá en un fenómeno mediático que mantendrá en vilo a todos los televidentes del país hasta que los agentes atrapen al culpable. Sin embargo, Killer Cards «guarda un as en la manga». ¿Conseguirán atrapar a Killer Cards antes de que complete su póker de asesinatos?

On the last day of December 1921, three enigmatic men - Cairo Martyr, a blue-eyed African who controls the Middle East's supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust; O'Sullivan Beare, a former Irish patriot and gunrunner who has made a fortune selling spurious, phallic-shaped Christian artifacts; and Mark Szondi, a dedicated Zionist who wagers only fried fish futures - sit down to a fateful game of poker in the back room of a Jerusalem antiquities shop owned by a 3000-year-old knight errant.

Killer Cards, nombre con el que bautiza la prensa a quien va dejando a su paso cadáveres de personalidades de la sociedad con un as de la baraja de póker en la ropa, tiene un plan trazado con meticulosidad para alcanzar su objetivo y burlar a los investigadores. El caso se convertirá en un fenómeno mediático que mantendrá en vilo a todos los televidentes del país hasta que los agentes atrapen al culpable. Sin embargo, Killer Cards «guarda un as en la manga». ¿Conseguirán atrapar a Killer Cards antes de que complete su póker de asesinatos?

Der zum Sonderbeauftragten des Moskauer Generalgouverneurs avancierte Erast Petrowitsch Fandorin sieht sich einer neuen Herausforderung gegenüber: Es gilt, den äußerst geschickten Betrüger ausfindig zu machen, der das Palais des Gouverneurs an einen nichtsahnenden englischen Lord "verkauft" und den erzielten Gewinn eingestrichen hat.

Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own - to take this city slicker into the wilderness, and hunt him like an animal. But Rance McKinney doesn't know who he is facing. The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad goes by the moniker of the Loner.

It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and the Darling Dahlias—the garden club in little Darling, Alabama—are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling. He—or she!—strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s direction, while a hurricane of a different sort is making a whirlwind campaign stop: the much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long.

Solo hay una jugada que supera a un póker de ases. A veces para hacer justicia hay que cometer un crimen... o varios. Parece que no todo el mundo ha quedado de acuerdo con la resolución de los asesinatos cometidos por Killer Cards. Unos meses más tarde alguien se empeña en reabrir el caso y todo parece volver a empezar.

A motley crew, banished from a Western town, find strength, and weakness, in each other.

Bret Harte paints a timeless portrait of undesirables who are forced to leave a self-righteous town, and who, in the face of oncoming winter and in the company of a pair of innocents, learn to become bigger than themselves.

Poker Flat is cleaning house. John Oakhurst is allowed to leave of his own accord along with a few others who didn’t quite match society’s ideals. Maybe they got off good. Others had been hung from nearby sycamore trees. Who was good? Who was bad? Who was innocent? Questions to ponder as you listen to this classic short story narrated by Glenn Hascall.

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Fibber's planning on an evening of poker at the Elk's Club, but it's a big secret from Molly!