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 ...
- ISBN10 1471912922
- ISBN13 9781471912924
- Publish Date 14 March 2014 (first published 7 June 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Murder Room
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English