The Devil's Tickets

✍ Scribed by Pomerantz, Gary M

• Book ID: 110483605
• Publisher: Crown/Archetype
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307460363

✦ Synopsis

Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a "bum bridge player." For such insubordination, he slaps her hard in front of their stunned guests and announces he is leaving. Moments later, sobbing, with a Colt .32 pistol
in hand, Myrtle fires four shots, killing her husband.

The Roaring 1920s inspired nationwide fads--flagpole sitting, marathon dancing, swimming-pool endurance floating. But of all the mad games that cheered Americans between the wars, the least likely was contract bridge. As the Barnum of the bridge craze, Ely Culbertson, a tuxedoed boulevardier with a Russian accent, used mystique, brilliance, and a certain madness to transform bridge from a social pastime into a cultural movement that made him rich and famous. In writings, in lectures, and on the radio, he used the Bennett killing to dramatize bridge as the battle of the sexes. Indeed, Myrtle...
Number of Words in Auth: 3
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Has Cover : Yes
All Identifiers : isbn:978-0-307-46036-3
Single Author : Gary M. Pomerantz
Original Source : Mirc New Files 06 22
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Pomerantz, Gary M.
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