The devil's playbook Henning Mankell Vintage FF|FFP|FYT Paperback 2012

The devil's playbook Henning Mankell Vintage FF|FFP|FYT Paperback 2012Retired gambler Tadeus Boch has just come into possession of a mysterious playing card, apparently from a very rare eighteenth century deck. He immediately becomes obsessed with tracking down the entire set of cards, rumoured to be the one pack in the world for the legendary game Suprieur and said to be created by the Devil himself. But Boch is not the only person searching for the missing cards. And the more he learns about the game, the more

he discovers an intriguing woman with a zebra in her apartment

When Frances' great-niece Annie arrives from London and discovers that Frances' will stipulates that the person who solves her murder inherits her millions

they start to unravel the truth

Italian voice coach

she bestows her final puzzle to him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for his future

He tries to solve the crime himself before the police can - who suspect the woman

So why does she appear in the background of a recent holiday snap taken in Venice

a shady associate comes calling with a clean

Here are Helen's neighbours: the Topps

hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets

For the first time

culminating in his ultimate test at the uta awase - where Japan's greatest poets engage in fierce verbal combat for the honour of victory