Myrtle Bennett caused a national scandal in 1929 when she shot her husband dead over a poorly played bridge hand in an apartment on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. None other than local big shot James A Reed defends her in court. You also get the skinny on how Bridge became such a super-hot big deal.
. The Devil's Tickets: A Vengeful Wife, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age by Gary M Pomerantz, 328 pages; Broadway Books, 2011. |
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