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    The Ambitious Card

    By John Gaspard

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    The life of a magician isn't all kiddie shows and card tricks. Sometimes it's murder. Especially when magician Eli Marks very publicly debunks a famed psychic, and said psychic ends up dead.

    The evidence, including a bloody King of Diamonds playing card (one from Eli’s own Ambitious Card routine), directs the police right to Eli.

    As more psychics are slain, and more King cards rise to the top, Eli can’t escape suspicion. Things get really complicated when romance blooms with a beautiful psychic, and Eli discovers she’s the next target for murder, and he’s scheduled to die with her. Now Eli must use every trick he knows to keep them both alive and reveal the true killer.

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    THE AMBITIOUS CARD by John Gaspard - A Henery Press Mystery. If you love one, you’ll probably love them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHenery Press
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781938383496
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    The Ambitious Card
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    John Gaspard

    John is author of the Eli Marks mystery series as well as three other stand-alone novels, "The Greyhound of the Baskervilles," The Sword & Mr. Stone" and "The Ripperologists."He also writes the Como Lake Players mystery series, under the pen name Bobbie Raymond.In real life, John's not a magician, but he has directed six low-budget features that cost very little and made even less - that's no small trick. He's also written multiple books on the subject of low-budget filmmaking. Ironically, they've made more than the films.Those books ("Fast, Cheap and Under Control" and "Fast, Cheap and Written That Way") are available in eBook, Paperback and audiobook formats.John lives in Minnesota and shares his home with his lovely wife, several dogs, a few cats and a handful of pet allergies.

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    • 4/5
      My first boon of Eli Marks n found it thoroughly enjoyable n entertaining.
    • 5/5
      This is the first book in the magician Eli Marks mystery series. Eli is recently divorced. His District Attorney wife had an affair with a homicide detective and dumped Eli to marry him. Eli is back living with his recently widowed uncle Harry and working at his uncle's magic shop. The story begins with Eli being on a television program set in the Wabasha Caves where he is to debunk a fake psychic. The show goes quite well with Eli showing how the psychic did his tricks without giving away secrets that are kept by magicians. Eli does a number of tricks including one known as the Ambitious Card where the same card keeps showing up no matter how the deck is cut or shuffled. Things begin to go wrong the next day when the fake psychic is found murdered and the card that was the object of the Ambitious Card trick is found with him. Eli becomes a person of interest and the focus of the attention of his ex-wife's new husband. Since Eli had no previous connection to the victim, he is let go.But when a number of other psychics are also found murdered and the same playing card is left at each scene, Eli needs to find out who the killer is in order to keep himself from being framed. I loved the Minneapolis-St. Paul setting for the story. I really enjoyed the interesting assortment of characters. I'll be reading more in this entertaining series.