Funny money

By James Swain

Subjects: Mystery, Joueurs (Jeux de hasard), Swindlers and swindling, Gamblers in fiction, Suspense, Private investigators, fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Vingt-et-un (Jeu), Blackjack (Game), Swindlers and swindling in fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators in fiction, Valentine, tony (fictitious character), fiction, Escroqueries, Fiction, Gamblers, Détectives, Mystery fiction, Tony Valentine (Fictitious character), Atlantic city (n.j.), fiction, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories

Description: Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won't spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years and learned every trick of the trade--until a new one blows him away.With his old partner murdered in a bomb blast, Tony returns to A.C. to retrace Doyle Flanagan's last case. Investigating a six-million-dollar casino takedown, a square cop soon meets a whole lot of bent people, from a beautiful lady wrestler to some Manhattan mobsters; from a trio of beautiful casino "consultants" to a team of Eurotrash blackjack card counters. But while everyone around Tony Valentine (including Tony's own son) is playing some kind of angle, Tony is determined to find a killer who is playing for keeps. . . . From the Paperback edition.