Hard Luck (Cat Marsala #3)

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Synopsis
Cat Marsala has a rush assignment: an article on how the state lottery works. The job sounds simple enough: talk to lottery officials, research lotteries in gen¬eral, and write the piece. Cat talks with the lottery director, Doro¬thy Furman, then meets the advertising manager, Jack Sligh. As she is leaving, Sligh asks Cat if she would do an expose. Intrigued, she makes an appointment for Tuesday morning to talk some more. But, on Tuesday morning, as Cat is approaching the building, Jack's body falls from a high window. Her meeting with Jack has been forever canceled. Cat's interest in the lottery has just begun, however. She interviews Jack's wife, Doris, who is a lottery stores coor¬dinator. About to divorce Jack, she's now conveniently a widow. Cat also meets old Hector Furman, father of Doris and Doro¬thy, who began long ago in the illegal numbers game and brought his skills to the lottery. And she meets others who know more about lotteries than Cat ever imagined. Cat's investigation takes her into the techniques the lottery uses to increase sales, the way lottery tickets are pro¬duced, and the fears of compulsive gam¬blers in this age of highly advertised games. She learns about shocking odds- for instance, that the chances of picking the six winning numbers out of fifty-four in a weekly lottery are only one in four¬teen million. And she discovers that someone will make an attempt on her life and on the life of her parrot, Long John Silver, to stop her story. Barbara D'Amato, hailed by the critics as "stunningly ingenious"* and one of the top new American mystery writers, brings to her novels wit and style and a dramatic sense of her Chicago setting. With memo¬rable characters and a dynamic insider's look at the lottery,
Copyright:
1992

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
243 Pages
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N/A
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Copyrighted By:
Barbara D'Amato
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Natasha
Proofread By:
Tricia Netzley
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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