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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Former Marine and CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's renowned security and detective business--along with a case load that tests him to the breaking point. Getting to the bottom of an NFL gambling scandal and an unsolved LAPD investigation into 18 school girl slayings would be enough. On top of all that, Morgan takes on solving the horrific murder of his best friend's wife.
42) Scandalous again
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Series
Switching places volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Two exquisite cousins must exchange identities in a scandalous deception. Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England, which is why she can't believe that, in a turn of the cards, her noble father has lost his entire estate - and her! - to a stranger.
43) The Gameshouse
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse, but few know all its secrets. It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon—every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league, where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where capture the castle involves real castles and where hide-and-seek takes place on the scale of a continent....
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Matthew Cape has no time to worry about his fears; caught up in events not of his making, but inescapable, he does things he's never dared and goes places he's only dreamed about. He's given up everything he ever had, but nothing at all of what he is, and if there's a price to pay, Cape is the one who will pay it.
The Corvette is easy, the skydiving fun, and gambling, well... that has always been a passion, though never at stakes this high. Dealing...
46) Betting game
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Jack's a star player on an elite soccer team along with his brother, Alex. The Lancers are on top of the league, even favored to win the National Championship. But the game's about to change. A slick bookie wins Jack's friendship and introduces him to illegal betting. Before long, Jack is hooked on the adrenaline rush, and early wins convince him that gambling could make him rich. Meanwhile, an ever-widening rift is forming between the two brothers....
47) City of widows
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Description
A federal judge sends Deputy Marshall Page Murdoch after a corrupt sheriff who killed the judge's best friend. Murdoch is chosen because he is the most likely to bring back the sheriff dead, thus avoiding a complicated trial.
48) Wanted
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Seventeen-year-old Michal Garcia, a bookie at Carson City High School, raises the stakes in her illegal activities after she meets wealthy, risk-taking Josh Ellison.
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Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a great deal of living--not to mention eight much-loved husbands--into her varied and rewarding life. Newly single, Toots is ready to taste life again, and fate has just handed her the perfect opportunity. The owner of the gossip rag where Toots's daughter works is about to lose the paper to his gambling debts. Eager to find a way to keep her daughter employed among the movers and shakers of Hollywood,...
50) Oscar & Lucinda
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Appears on list
Description
A rebellious Anglican priest and a teenaged heiress who buys a glass factory in Australia pursue an unlikely romance
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"...In Dance with the Devil, the second volume in the trilogy of novels, in the American Wild West, Jesse James and his gang are robbing trains, the Sioux Indians are on the warpath, and John Henry Holliday arrives in Texas as a young man with a troubled past hoping to regain his place as a Southern gentleman..."--goodreads.
52) The winner
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Description
When LuAnn Tyler is asked to be part of a crooked lottery scheme, she refuses, even though it would mean millions of dollars. But when she is framed for murder, the frightened single mother is forced to participate. Ten years later she has become a wealthy woman determined to live a normal life. But it will take more than money to escape the attention of the FBI who may want her for murder, and the dangerous man from her past who wants to kill her--if...
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
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Description
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Ty Butler came from Eastern wealth, but killers destroyed everyone who shared his name. Seeking a safe haven in the open West, he's found a home among the outlaws, tinhorns, and fugitives at the gaming table. His skill at reading faces and cards has kept Butler in the money, and it's kept him sharp and ready for the assassins who're hunting him. Working his way to Dodge City, Butler finds the town about to explode -- with him right in the middle.
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The amorous adventures of Kate Elder, a gambler's wife who became the mistress of Doc Holliday, the dentist-gunslinger. Later she became mistress to U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp and after a stint as a prostitute, returned to Holliday. Together the three journey to Tombstone for the famous gunfight at the OK Corral.
56) The gambler
Author
Pub. Date
1917, 1996
Description
An unabridged republication of Dostoyevsky's early twentieth-century novel about the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated lives of young gambler Alexey Ivanovitch and the woman he loves.
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Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 4
Description
"Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice knows when hold 'em, when to fold 'em, and when to team up with master gunman Newt "Widowmaker" Jones. She's betting on Jones to protect her--and her money--on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is buried in the Salton sands. Some say it's a Spanish galleon that got stuck when the sea ran dry. Other says it's a Chinese junk full of pearls or a Viking ship filled with Aztec...
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"Two western stories: In 'Where the Backshooter Waits' conspirators plot to get rid of the Dawson brothers and take over their ranch. In 'Lone Rider' Lew Stark is supposed to inherit the .45 Ranch when J.D. Regal dies, but his four biological sons plot to get rid of Stark and claim the ranch for themselves"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Sent by his father to live with family in the West, Alfred Larribee is lazy and shiftless, spending most of his time in town drinking, gambling and cheating at cards. But that all changes with the appearance of Sky Blue, a magnificent stallion that has never been ridden. His owner hopes to find a cowboy who can ride Sky Blue, but the first one to try is seriously injured. After that, no one is willing to volunteer again ... except Larribee.
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