{"product_id":"joker-poker-richard-helms-9781793433435","title":"Joker Poker","description":"Pat Gallegher has been running from his life for years. A failed seminary student, retired psychologist, and disgraced college professor, he finds himself in his late forties playing jazz cornet in a New Orleans French Quarter bar.One meeting with Clancey Vincouer changes his life. She tells him the sordid story of her affair with a con man named Sammy Cain, who has disappeared. Clancey fears that Lester Vincouer, her husband, has had Cain killed. Gallegher searches for Cain, and uncovers a twisted arrangement between Lester and the New Orleans mob. When Lester Vincouer is murdered, Gallegher realizes he has been cleverly framed.The search for Sammy Cain becomes a quest for the real killer of Lester Vincouer, and everyone seems to have a motive-including the leggy, seductive redhead with whom Gallegher has fallen head-over-heels in lust. With a tenacious police detective dogging his trail, Gallegher has only days to discover who really killed Vincouer, or the next tune he plays might be his swan song-on Death Row Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher series has been nominated for the PWA Shamus Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the SMFS Derringer Award, and the MRI Macavity Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Helms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1793433437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781793433435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Richard Helms","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052275978495,"sku":"9781793433435","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c74dba4-871e-45c7-bc5b-97cab86efbc8.jpg?v=1723555850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joker-poker-richard-helms-9781793433435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}