Lucky at Cards (Hard Case Crime)
by Lawrence Block
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Author: Lawrence BlockEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-30
ISBN: 0843957689
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
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Book Review: Serviceable early Bloch
Summary: 3 Stars
Lucky at Cards is a rough mix of a great card game tale like Milton Burton's The Rogue's Game with James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice. Unfortunately, it is by an early Lawrence Block and not up to the quality of his later works such as the Edgar award winning When the Sacred Ginmill Closes.
That's not to say it's a bad book. His description of the poker game, and the strategies (or lack thereof) used by the players in this book are quite compelling. However, whenever an author ventures into territory like The Postman, then he is treading well-traveled ground and must struggle to find some way to keep us interested.
Bloch succeeds far more with that task in the card playing aspect than he does the unfaithful wife aspect. Dialog in the former fairly crackles; in the latter it is hackneyed and predictable. As another reviewer has noted, you'll be better server by Bloch's The Girl with the Long Green Heart if you want femme fatales.
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