New York. 1958. Dutton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 224 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery Las Vegas Pulp. DESCRIPTION - It started at exactly eleven minutes past three A.M. on Sunday when Bello made his first appearance in the pit, picked up a pair of dice, and asked that the house limit on bets be taken off.' And so began the grueling session: three days and three nights of a continuous dice game. At stake: the biggest, gaudiest, and best casino hotel in Las Vegas - Joe Martin's Rainbow's End. To the syndicate that wanted it, it was worth a four hundred thousand dollar risk. And Bello, the shrewd professional gambler, was the man who could win it for them. For Joe Martin, his girl, his top security man, the casino's pianist, Bello's girl, and for all the others, these were days and nights of fascination and fear. Steve Fisher takes the reader inside Las Vegas and shows what casino life is really like. Here is the desperate go-broke,' a familiar Las Vegas type, and here are the pretty little show girls whose hopes and accomplishments are two different things. And this is the story of the two couples who found themselves so closely involved with the fortunes of the game: the story of the cynical casino owner and the beautiful, innocent schoolteacher who shared his ordeal; and that of the casino's pianist who caught the attention of the gambler's girl. Here is a colorful, exciting, and suspenseful novel by the author of I WAKE UP SCREAMING and DESTINATION TOKYO. inventory #22799

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Author bio	Stephen Gould Fisher (August 29, 1912 - March 27, 1980) was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in slick magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood. Steve Fisher was born 29 August 1912, in Marine City, Michigan. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Oneonta Military Academy until running away to join the Navy at the age of sixteen. Fisher spent four years in the Navy submarine service, during which time he wrote prolifically, selling stories to U.S. Navy and Our Navy. After Fisher's discharge from the Navy, he settled in Greenwich Village, New York, where he decided to pursue writing as a career. The first few months proved difficult. Fisher could not sell a story and suffered eviction from two apartments, and once had his electricity shut off. In March 1934, however, he would publish his first story, Hell's Scoop, in Sure-Fire Detective Magazine, beginning a career of considerable literary success. Fisher's Mistress Death was the cover story on the MayJune 1936 issue of New Mystery Adventures. Fisher published extensively in pulps throughout the 1930s, 40s and into the 50s. Magazines that featured his stories include Spicy Mystery Stories, Thrilling Detective, True Gang Life, Detective Fiction Weekly, The Shadow, New Mystery Adventures, Underground Detective, The Mysterious Fu Wang, The Phantom Detective, Ace Detective, Saucy Romantic Adventures, Mystery Adventure, Detective Tales, The Whisperer, Headquarters Detective, Hardboiled, Doc Savage, Feds, Federal Agent, Popular Detective, Clues, Detective Romances, Crime Busters, Pocket Detective and Detective Story Magazine. Some of Fisher's most significant stories, however, would be published in Black Mask, the seminal detective magazine. Famous Mask editor Joe Shaw rejected early submissions by Fisher, but under the editorship of Fanny Ellsworth, Fisher would help create a more emotional, psychological crime story, different from his hard-boiled Mask predecessors. Fisher stated, [My] subjective style, mood and approach to a story was the antithesis of [a] Roger Torrey who, like Hammett, wrote objectively, with crisp, cold precision. The more emotionally charged style caught on and was featured in a number of detective pulps, helping to establish a place for similar authors, such as Fisher's friend Cornell Woolrich. In total Fisher would publish nine stories in Black Mask: Death of a Dummy, Flight to Paris, Hollywood Party, Jake and Jill, Latitude Unknown, Murder at Eight, No Gentleman Strangles His Wife, Wait for Me, You'll Always Remember Me,. Fisher would also break into slick magazines during this period, a rare feat for a pulp writer. His stories saw simultaneous publication in pulps and in slicks such as Liberty, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and American Magazine to name a few. He would also publish under the pennames Stephen Gould and Grant Lane, and would go on to publish hundreds of stories in pulp and slick magazines including Lt. Commander Sheridan Doome detective novels. Struggling financially, Fisher moved to Paris in 1939 to work and live more affordably. After only six month, his agent, H. N. Swanson, sold the stories If You Break My Heart and Shore Leave to Hollywood for film adaptation. Fisher returned to Hollywood where he would work for much of the remainder of his life as a screenwriter. Fisher wrote the screenplays for such notable films noir as Dead Reckoning and Lady in the Lake. He would also spent time writing novels, most notably I Wake Up Screaming, which was made into a film by the same name starring Victor Mature. During the 1970s, Fisher experienced great success writing for television, including such shows as Starsky & Hutch, McMillan & Wife and Barnaby Jones. He died of a heart attack on March 27, 1980 at his home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, age 67.

Author bio

Author bio

Stephen Gould Fisher (August 29, 1912 - March 27, 1980) was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in slick magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood. Steve Fisher was born 29 August 1912, in Marine City, Michigan. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Oneonta Military Academy until running away to join the Navy at the age of sixteen. Fisher spent four years in the Navy submarine service, during which time he wrote prolifically, selling stories to U.S. Navy and Our Navy. After Fisher's discharge from the Navy, he settled in Greenwich Village, New York, where he decided to pursue writing as a career. The first few months proved difficult. Fisher could not sell a story and suffered eviction from two apartments, and once had his electricity shut off. In March 1934, however, he would publish his first story, Hell's Scoop, in Sure-Fire Detective Magazine, beginning a career of considerable literary success. Fisher's Mistress Death was the cover story on the MayJune 1936 issue of New Mystery Adventures. Fisher published extensively in pulps throughout the 1930s, 40s and into the 50s. Magazines that featured his stories include Spicy Mystery Stories, Thrilling Detective, True Gang Life, Detective Fiction Weekly, The Shadow, New Mystery Adventures, Underground Detective, The Mysterious Fu Wang, The Phantom Detective, Ace Detective, Saucy Romantic Adventures, Mystery Adventure, Detective Tales, The Whisperer, Headquarters Detective, Hardboiled, Doc Savage, Feds, Federal Agent, Popular Detective, Clues, Detective Romances, Crime Busters, Pocket Detective and Detective Story Magazine. Some of Fisher's most significant stories, however, would be published in Black Mask, the seminal detective magazine. Famous Mask editor Joe Shaw rejected early submissions by Fisher, but under the editorship of Fanny Ellsworth, Fisher would help create a more emotional, psychological crime story, different from his hard-boiled Mask predecessors. Fisher stated, [My] subjective style, mood and approach to a story was the antithesis of [a] Roger Torrey who, like Hammett, wrote objectively, with crisp, cold precision. The more emotionally charged style caught on and was featured in a number of detective pulps, helping to establish a place for similar authors, such as Fisher's friend Cornell Woolrich. In total Fisher would publish nine stories in Black Mask: Death of a Dummy, Flight to Paris, Hollywood Party, Jake and Jill, Latitude Unknown, Murder at Eight, No Gentleman Strangles His Wife, Wait for Me, You'll Always Remember Me,. Fisher would also break into slick magazines during this period, a rare feat for a pulp writer. His stories saw simultaneous publication in pulps and in slicks such as Liberty, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and American Magazine to name a few. He would also publish under the pennames Stephen Gould and Grant Lane, and would go on to publish hundreds of stories in pulp and slick magazines including Lt. Commander Sheridan Doome detective novels. Struggling financially, Fisher moved to Paris in 1939 to work and live more affordably. After only six month, his agent, H. N. Swanson, sold the stories If You Break My Heart and Shore Leave to Hollywood for film adaptation. Fisher returned to Hollywood where he would work for much of the remainder of his life as a screenwriter. Fisher wrote the screenplays for such notable films noir as Dead Reckoning and Lady in the Lake. He would also spent time writing novels, most notably I Wake Up Screaming, which was made into a film by the same name starring Victor Mature. During the 1970s, Fisher experienced great success writing for television, including such shows as Starsky & Hutch, McMillan & Wife and Barnaby Jones. He died of a heart attack on March 27, 1980 at his home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, age 67.

Fisher, Steve. No House Limit: A Novel of Las Vegas

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