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FROM: [sender] <[sender]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 3:50 PM

Can anyone think of any type of novel that has an
element of the card game bridge in it.

FROM: Viccy Kemp <Viccy.Kemp@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 4:01 PM

Susan Moody has written several mysteries featuring Cassandra Swann, who
plays bridge:
Death takes a hand
Grand slam
King of hearts
Doubled in spades
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

FROM: "Sarah Stein" <SStein@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 4:11 PM

Susan Moody's series of bridge mystries with Cassandra Swann
Dummy hand
Doubled in spades
King of hearts
Grand slam
Death takes a hand

Sarah

Sarah Stein
Senior Special Collections Librarian
Denver Public Library
Denver, Colorado, USA
sstein@denver.lib.co.us

>>> [sender]@yahoo.com 03/08/01 02:45PM >>>
Can anyone think of any type of novel that has an
element of the card game bridge in it.

FROM: "Dusty Gres" <gresd@mail.toombs.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 4:32 PM

Agatha Christie one of her Poirot mysteries based on bridge: Cards on the
Table

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FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 4:52 PM

At 01:45 PM 3/8/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Can anyone think of any type of novel that has an
>element of the card game bridge in it.
>
I think there were a few bridge books among the long list of games-
related fiction that was a thread here about three months ago.

Aside from Christie's CARDS ON THE TABLE and others already mentioned--

Interpreting "an element" very loosely--the Lockridges named their
detective characters, Mr. and Mrs. North, after the traditional
dummy in bridge hands. (An inside joke that does not appear anywhere
in the texts of the books themselves, so far as I know.)

There's a Roald Dahl short story about cheating at bridge by use of
verbal signals; title forgotten but it's in either SOMEONE LIKE YOU
or KISS KISS.

There's a couple of (scarce, unfortunately) paperbacks in the
literature of Sherloch-Holmes-by-other-hands: SHERLOCK HOLMES,
BRIDGE DETECTIVE and SHERLOCK HOLMES, BRIDGE DETECTIVE RETURNS
(Frank Thomas, from Pinnacle pbs in the 1970s).

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Lynne Kobayashi <lynne@lib.state.hi.us>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 5:24 PM

In Wharton's House of Mirth, Lily Bart loses a lot of money at bridge. Not
sure if that counts as "an element."

Lynne Kobayashi



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