Download or read book The Death of a Bookie written by Guy Beaulieu and published by a-argus books. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one had seen anyone or heard a sound when the body of Louis-the=snake Billings, the number one bookie was dropped on the floor smack in the middle of Jacob Schriber's office. A private detective, Jacob couldn't allow anyone to get away with that.
Download or read book Death of a Bookie written by Beaulieu Guy (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Odds written by Chad Millman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."
Download or read book The World According to Fannie Davis written by Bridgett M. Davis and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.
Download or read book Fortune s Formula written by William Poundstone and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible. Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the "Kelly formula" to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners. Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffett's rate of return. Fortune's Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversy even as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and trading desks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which is founded on exploiting an insider's edge. Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beat the market—and William Poundstone's Fortune's Formula will convince you that he was right.
Download or read book Confessions of a Bronx Bookie written by Billy O'Connor and published by Waterfront Digital Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Betting on Death written by Megan Mollson and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1900 and Rose Lunceford has started her own detective agency. All she and her partner, Will Edwards, need is a good case to get them off on the right foot. Unfortunately, all they have is an elderly woman who insists that someone is stealing her silver though all the pieces are still in the box. Things take a mysterious turn when a local bookie is found dead and suddenly everyone around Rose seems to be caught up in the vice of gambling. Can Rose and Will prove that they deserve to run a detective agency? Can they unravel all the mysteries that have entangled them before it's too late? Join our feisty heroine, Rose, as she tracks down her man, much to the chagrin of the very handsome Detective Cal Lloyd.Please Note: Second Volume of the the Rose Lunceford Mystery Series. Approximately 51,000 words in length. It is a standalone (reading prior or future volumes not required to enjoy the book, no cliffhanger). Themes include: Edwardian era, Cozy mystery series, Murder, Gambling, Bookie, Casino, Poison, Daring heroine, Romance
Download or read book The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes written by Robert Reeves and published by Popular Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truck driver employed by Murdock Motor Freight, Bookie Barnes is a tough working class hero. Though not a detective per se, he is a rough customer described as "tall, heavy-chested, with a build you see only in physical culture ads, and, though barely twenty-six, he'd been on the trucks for three years." He is emblematic of the type of crime fighters found in pulp fiction in that he represents the typical readership of pulp fiction: an average working-class audience. Written by one of the greats of the detective pulps, Robert Reeves-who was tragically killed in World War II-this book collects all of his Bookie Barnes stories: "Murder in High Gear," "Over a Barrel," and "Murder Without Death," as well as his lone, non-series character story, "Dance Macabre."
Download or read book Mirrors of Death written by Mark Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This memoir from the son of notorious gunman and career criminal Ray Chuck Bennett is more than a recitation of one's lilfetime. It is the journey of a man carrying a dark secret, unknown even to himself. Mirrors of death is a tribute to the friends and family of Mark Lee Bennett that lost their lives over the years, through tragedy and bad circumstance. It's a story of one man's constant experience with death and tragedy. And it is also a glimpse at the underbelly of Victoria as seen from a man who emerged, scarred and changed forever, from the legacy of the Great Bookie Robbery" --Back cover.
Download or read book Cassavetes on Cassavetes written by John Cassavetes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero--a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning thirty years. Having already established himself as an actor, he struck out as a filmmaker in 1959 with Shadows, and proceeded to build a formidable body of work, including such classics as Faces, Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Gloria. In Cassavettes on Cassavettes, Ray Carney presents the great director in his own words--frank, uncompromising, humane, and passionate about life and art.
Download or read book Bust written by Adam B. Resnick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the memoir of gambling addict Adam Resnick, a charismatic family man who won and lost millions of dollars and got involved with bookies, mobsters, life-threatening situations, and a high-rolling lifestyle before going to jail for bank fraud.
Download or read book Bruce the Bookie written by Lindsay Gaze and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Johnstone seems to have lived many lives: farm hand, fruit picker, navy seaman, real estate agent, insurance agent, publican, SP bookie, two-up operator, jail inmate, confidante and friend to sporting stars and underworld figures. Actually, Bruce Johnstone only lived a few of those lives. Bruce The Bookie lived them all as one of Melbourne's most well-known, well-connected and well-liked SP bookies and two-up operators. In Bruce The Bookie - A Real Life Story of Gambling, Sport and the Underworld, you will take a colourful trip with a colourful character as he runs from punters with guns and the police, builds successful legitimate business, but still has a hankering for illegal SP bookmaking. You will get some inside information on The Great Bookie Robbery, learn how Bruce's debt collector got away with murder only to meet his own grizzly ending, and experience jail from the inside, where Bruce The Bookie still managed to operate. Bruce The Bookie - A Real Life Story of Gambling, Sport and the Underworld is part memoir, part real-life adventure as he challenges authority, rubs shoulders with the famous and infamous, including Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs and the last man hanged in Victoria, Ronald Ryan. Bruce The Bookie - A Real Life Story of Gambling, Sport and the Underworld is an entertaining read that will have you chuckling and shaking your head at the same time, wondering how one man could achieve and cram so much into one life.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-11-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book The Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Ball written by Chandramohan Puppala and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whispers, and then some progressively loud murmurs! Match fixing and illegal betting had begun to pervade the cricketing world. In 2000, when the much respected South African skipper, Hansie Cronje, was found guilty of match fixing soon after a trail of stars fell after the another. Prominent cricketers from India, South Africa, Kenya, England, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Pakistan, came out as fixers over the next decade. Life bans were handed out like sixes on no balls! The scandal really hit home in 2013, when spot-fixing allegations in the Indian Premier League resulted in the ouster of Indian and Rajasthan Royals bowler Sreesanth, along with two other players. This incident threw open the murky underworld connection – quite literally – in Indian cricket. For the first time, journalist Chandramohan Puppala traces cricket's biggest corruption back to the kingpin Dawood Ibrahim himself. Based on transcripts of police-recorded conversations and unpublished information about the players at the key of the storm, including some of India's biggest names, No Ball is a revealing account of the rot at the heart of Indian cricket.
Download or read book Forever Blue written by Michael D'Antonio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Michael D'Antonio's posts on the Penguin Blog From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a revealing biography of "one of the most polarizing figures in baseball history" (The New York Times). If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was Walter O'Malley, owner of the Dodgers. O'Malley was one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports, altering the course of history when he uprooted the Dodgers and transplanted them from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. While many critics attacked him, O'Malley looked to the future, declining to defend his stance. As a result, fans across the nation have never been able to stop arguing about him and his strategy–until now. Michael D'Antonio's Forever Blue is a uniquely intimate portrait of a man who changed America's pastime forever, a fascinating story fundamental to the history of sports, business, and the American West. Michael D'Antonio's newest book, A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for America's Cup, is now available from Riverhead Books.
Download or read book Fate s Bookie written by Gary Hicks and published by History Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of lotteries, from their origins in Ancient Greece to the present day
