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The Picasso flop

The Picasso flop

by Vincent Van Patten, Vince Van Patten, Robert J. Randisi

PokerFictionAmerican Mystery & Suspense FictionFiction - Mystery/ DetectiveMystery/Suspense
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

"Vince Van Patten, host and commentator of a TV poker show and mystery author Robert J. Randisi combine for the first book in a poker mystery series set in casinos around the US"--Provided by the publisher.

Themes & subjects

PokerFictionAmerican Mystery & Suspense FictionFiction - Mystery/ DetectiveMystery/SuspenseMystery & Detective - General

About the author

Robert J. Randisi
Robert J. Randisi

1951

He's been called astonishingly prolific. He's been called "the last of the great pulp writers." Robert J. Randisi has fought to ensure that P.I. fiction gets some respect, not just through his many splendid contributions to the genre in the form of his fictional eyes creations of Miles Jacoby, Henry Po, Nick Delvecchio or a host of others, as entertaining as they may be, but through his tireless promotion of the genre through his numerous non-fiction articles, his co-founding, with Ed Gorman, of Mystery Scene magazine and most of all through his founding of The Private Eye Writers of America in 1981. Source: http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/randisi_r.html

Authors

Vincent Van Patten, Vince Van Patten, Robert J. Randisi

Pages

304

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

8

Language

English

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

ISBN

9780446178723

Where to buy

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