This image is the cover for the book Dead Man's Hand

Dead Man's Hand

Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery.

In “One Dollar Jackpot,” Michael Connelly’s curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up “Bump,” a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. “Hardly Knew Her” by Laura Lippmann showcases a young woman learning about bluffing the hard way, while “In the Eyes of Children” by Alexander McCall Smith features a scam at a poker table on the high seas.

With these, and more offerings from mystery greats such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Lescroart, Walter Mosley, Peter Robinson, and Eric Van Lustbader, Dead Man’s Hand is a suspenseful anthology that’s a big winner for any fan of crime fiction.

Otto Penzler, Parnell Hall, Jeffery Deaver, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Peter Robinson, Eric Van Lustbader, Joyce Carol Oates, Howard Lederer, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Connelly, Sam Hill, Christopher Coake, Sue DeNymme, Rupert Holmes, John Lescroart, Lorenzo Carcaterra

Otto Penzler is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, and columnist, and the owner of New York’s Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (www.hmhco.com)