The Poker Game Mystery by Peter Bartram (Book 4 of the Deadline Murder series)

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There are laughs alongside the action as Colin and his feisty girlfriend Shirley shuffle the cards and play the most dangerous game of all...

What’s The Poker Game Mystery about?

In The Poker Game Mystery… Crime reporter Colin Crampton discovers nightclub bouncer Steve Telford murdered. Colin can’t understand why five cards of a poker hand are laid out next to the body.

Tell us more…

As Colin investigates, he becomes entangled with three former special forces soldiers from the Second World War. All have motives to kill Telford. But Colin’s probe is derailed when a shock change at the Evening Chronicle puts the paper’s – and Colin’s – future in peril. The tension ratchets higher when the life of a young girl is on the line. Colin is forced to go head-to-head in a poker game with sinister newspaper owner Quentin Pell to save her.

There are laughs alongside the action as Colin and his feisty girlfriend Shirley shuffle the cards and play the most dangerous game of all – with their own lives at stake.

What have others' said?

Absolutely GREAT!!!!!

Great fun and a social history reminder!

Peter Bertram’s new book is a winner

A Final Word…

The Poker Game Mystery – A page-turning classic whodunnit with wit and pletny of humor.

The Poker Game Mystery

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