The Smoking Mirror
by Helen McCloy
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Celia McNeill is under arrest during her vacation to France and, desperate for cash, she makes a deal with card master Sergei Radetzkoy, whom she meets while being detained in Dieppe.He says he's just lucky at cards, but the crooks who follow him from the casino aren't interested in his winnings. They demand to know his 'system'. The fashionable folk who rescue him don't conceal their interest in his extraordinary success at the casino either - an interest that leads to murder ...Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1979
- Important places
- Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; Paris, France
- Important events
- World War II, German Occupation of France
- Epigraph
- He was too much of a gambler not to accept Fate. With him life was at best an uncertain game, and he always recognized the usual percentage in favor of the dealer.
--Bret Harte, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" - Dedication
- To my dear friends
ELEANOR and FLETCHER COATES,
who also knew Paris in the good old days - First words
- He was standing with a policemal at his elbow just inside the gate of the customs' shed.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Because it would destroy hope, and we can't live without that."
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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