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For most of its history, the image of the gambler has been stubbornly male: the riverboat sharp, the high roller, the lone man staring down a hand. Yet running …
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She begins, in the oldest version of the story, as a woman waiting. The gambler's wife sits at home while her husband loses the rent at the tables, and her role…
Poker and crime fiction were made for each other. Both are built on the same raw materials: imperfect information, the controlled lie, and the constant calculat…
Noir is not a genre. It is a temperature.You feel it in the first paragraph of a Raymond Chandler novel before anything has actually happened — in the quality o…