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Hardback. The unlucky ace of spades was a card that Joseph Bowne Elwell, the 'Wizard of Whist' might well have been dealt just prior to the sweltering-hot day in June 1920 when somebody somehow managed to obtain access to his art-filled house in Manhattan, shot him through the head, and then disappeared, as if into thin air - thereby creating one of the most fascinating true-crime mysteries of the 20th century. Elwell was as mysterious as his murderer. As well as being the greatest of bridge-players, the leading tutor of the game and the author of best-selling bridge textbooks, he was an unofficial 'spy-catcher', a heavy gambler on the stock exchange, the owner of a large stable of race-horses, a developer of Floridian real estate, a dealer in bootleg liquor - and following separation from his wife, a most industrious philanderer. Chiefly because his murder was of the nature of a 'locked-room mystery', there seemed no doubt that he had been slain by an intimate acquaintance - but was the murderous 'joker in the pack' a jealous husband, a revengeful ex-lover, a gambler whom Elwell had cheated or who owed him money, a bootlegger, a rival race-horse owner, an undercover agent for a foreign power.or an acquaintance of some other category? This is a brilliant reconstruction and analysis of events leading up to the crime and of the investigation. Illus., Index. Map eps. 224pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in F. dw.…
Seller Inventory # 18785
- Title
- THE SLAYING OF JOSEPH BOWNE ELWELL
- Author
- Goodman (Jonathan)
- Publisher
- Harrap
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover / Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 024554481X
- ISBN 13
- 9780245544811
- Edition
- First edition.
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Loretta Lay Books
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