Whaley, Bart: The Mysterious Gambler ©2008 Geno Munari, Houdini Magic, Inc., Las Vegas, NV Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 42 pages

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Comments: Includes essays on The Mysterious Gambler and The Man Who Was Erdnase: Loose Ends & Dead Ends (by Bart Whaley), as well as an introductory essay on How Gamblers Win by Gerritt M. Evans, a reexamination of historical poker cheats and gambling supply houses from the Civil War era, and a look at the theories behind the true identity of Erdnase.

Contents (courtesy Evan Shuster, magicbooks.be):

5 The Mysterious Gambler
5 A "Lost" Book
6 The Pretender
8 The Foundling
9 The Mysterious Mr. Evans
13 Evans' World of Cheating
17 Gerritt M. Evans & Co.
19 Was Grandin Really Evans?
20 Edward M. Grandin
22 Grandin's Sideline
25 Did Evans Revise the 1868 D&F Edition?
25 A Question of Identity
26 End of the Trail and After
27 Erdnase - An Evans/Grandin Connection?

30 Appendix A: Known Editions and Variants of "How Gamblers Win"
31 Appendix B: Dead Ends
32 Acknowledgements
33 The Man Who Was Erdnase - Loose Ends & Dead Ends