Which author's first novel begins; 'The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning'?
"Eon Productions making the 2006 film ""Casino Royale"". The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond, supported by Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre; Judi Dench returned for her fifth Bond film as Bond's superior, M. ""Casino Royale"" is a reboot, showing Bond at the beginning of his career as a 00-agent and overall stays true to the original novel. Casino Royale (novel) Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first ""James Bond"" book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and"
"information by the angry casino owner, who finds out the general area in which she is living (Washington, D.C.). The novel ends with a set-up for ""Stone Cold"", the third novel of the Camel Club series. Doug Childers of the ""Richmond Times"" said that, while the book had a ""splendid opening"", the rest of the novel ""doesn't take the direction readers might expect"". Lee Ann Montanaro of ""The Times of Malta"" stated that the novel didn't ""qualify as a masterly display of the thriller-writing genre"" and that they were ""expecting more"". A ""San Antonio Express-News"" writer, in their title, said"
"The Damnation Game (novel) The Damnation Game is a horror novel by English writer Clive Barker, published in 1985. It was written just after finishing the first trilogy of ""Books of Blood"", and tells a Faustian story that touches on topics such as incest, cannibalism, and self-mutilation in a frank and detailed manner. It was his first novel. Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of one of the wealthiest men in the world, Joseph Whitehead. The job is more complicated and dangerous than he first thought, however, as Marty soon"
"The corporations build new and gaudier attractions, which Sam laments are not the same as when the Mafia was in control. Sam subsequently retires to San Diego and continues to live as a sports handicapper for the Mob, in his own words, ending up ""right back where I started"". The research for ""Casino"" began when screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi read a 1980 report from the ""Las Vegas Sun"" about a domestic argument between Frank ""Lefty"" Rosenthal, a casino figure, and his wife Geri McGee, a former topless dancer. This gave him an idea to focus on a new book about the"
"ornithologist James Bond, and the code number—007—which referred to the breaking of a World War I German diplomatic code. Some aspects of Bond's character and tastes replicate those of Fleming himself. On the morning of 17 February 1952, Ian Fleming started writing what would become his first book, ""Casino Royale"", at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. He typed out 2,000 words in the morning, directly from his own experiences and imagination and finished work on the manuscript in just over a month, completing it on 18 March 1952. Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American"
"Her father, Mr Butler dies; she grows apart from her family. The Financier Published in 1912, The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser, is the first volume of the ""Trilogy of Desire"", which includes ""The Titan"" (1914) and ""The Stoic"" (1947). In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe &"
"The Devil's Company The Devil's Company is a historical-mystery-thriller novel by David Liss, set in 18th century London. It is the third of three novels containing the memoir of the fictional Benjamin Weaver, a retired bare-knuckle boxer, now a ""thief-taker"" (a cross between a modern private investigator and bounty hunter). Weaver's ""memoir"" began with Liss' first novel, ""A Conspiracy of Paper"" (2000), and continued in ""A Spectacle of Corruption"" (2004). This third memoir installment begins in November of 1722, eight months after the 1722 General Election that provided the historical setting for ""A Spectacle of Corruption"". This time, Weaver finds"
"1 Connaught Square, which had previously been the London residence of Mary Augusta Ward, a novelist of the late 19th and early 20th century. A massive Francis Bacon painting he acquired during this time was so hideous that it was exiled to hanging in the hall, while a grandfather clock inside the property was painted by Timothy Leary. In the 1970s, ""Playboy"" magazine encountered competition from a new generation of rival periodicals (most notably ""Penthouse"" and ""Hustler""), precipitating a gradual decline in overall profitability. However, gaming profits from the London casino kept rising, making future expansion into gaming very attractive."
"Dirty Game wearing a coat at the computer because she couldn't afford to have central heating installed. Her new partner told her to 'get a proper job' but she had a feeling this book was different. She sent it out to six agents, two came back straight away and one of them said she had someone who might be interested. Days later, Jessie was offered a 3-book deal for a six figure sum, and her writing career took off. Her first novel, ""Dirty Game"" was published in February 2008 and shot straight to the top of the Heatseekers chart, after"
"of Lizavyeta, who is disgusted to learn that his professions of love were a mask for greed. Hermann attends the funeral of the countess, and is terrified to see the countess open her eyes in the coffin and look at him. Later that night, the ghost of the countess appears. The ghost names the secret three cards (three, seven, ace), tells him he must play just once each night and then orders him to marry Lizavyeta. Hermann takes his entire savings to Chekalinsky's salon, where wealthy men gamble for high stakes. On the first night, he bets it all on"
"Fog Rises"" (Warner, UK). A book which “reeks with the pervasive stench of excrement” as Iain Sinclair […] put it, this is a lowlife spectacular set in the seediest sections of the capital. Derek Raymond Robert William Arthur Cook (12 June 1931 – 30 July 1994), better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being a founder of British noir. The eldest son of a textile magnate, Cook spent his early years at the family's London house, off Baker Street, tormenting a series of nannies. In 1937, in anticipation of"
"It was published from the ""slush pile"" at HarperCollins. The novel is a thriller about a merchant banker who takes revenge on two gangsters who killed his father. The book is set in Scotland, where Leather worked for five years on ""The Glasgow Herald"" as a business writer. His second novel, ""The Fireman"", was written while he was working as the business editor of the ""South China Morning Post"". In ""The Fireman"", a British tabloid journalist travels to Hong Kong to discover why his sister committed suicide. Both novels, and his third, ""Hungry Ghost"", were published by HarperCollins. Leather wrote"
"""De Plane"". On April 24, 2018, Little, Brown and Company published Tapper's first novel, a political thriller entitled, ""The Hellfire Club"". The novel follows a new congressmen discovering corruption and conspiracy in 1950s Washington. The book debuted at Number 3 on the New York Times Best-Seller List for Hardcover fiction, and remained on the Best-Seller list for four weeks total. The Associated Press called The Hellfire Club ""insightful...well-written and worthwhile."" Tablet Magazine called the novel ""startlingly good."" USA Today said the author ""sizzles"" and ""proves he has the page-turning knack in his entertaining debut novel."" Tapper is also the author"
"is, as you pronounce it, the grave of thousands”. The financial mismanagement of Gibbes’ father-in-law, a compulsive gambler, was the eventual cause of her extreme poverty; parental neglect and a strong aversion to gambling are manifest in many of Gibbes' novels. Gibbes first entered the world of English literature with a double-debut in 1764: the controversial ""The Life and Adventures of Mr. Francis Clive"" (1764) and the epistolary novel, ""History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honorable Miss Caroline Stretton"" (1764). Three years after her debut, Gibbes published two novels, ""The Woman of Fashion; or, the History of Lady Diana"
"Sad Cypress Sad Cypress is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March 1940 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at eight shillings and threepence (8/3) – the first price rise for a UK Christie edition since her 1921 debut – and the US edition retailed at $2.00. The novel was the first novel in the Poirot series set at least partly in the courtroom, with lawyers and witnesses exposing the facts underlying Poirot's"
"are protected from the explosion by the reef and Bond watches as Mr Big, who survived the explosion, is killed by the sharks and barracuda. Quarrel then rescues the couple. Between January and March 1952 the journalist Ian Fleming wrote ""Casino Royale"", his first novel, at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. Fleming conducted research for ""Live and Let Die"", and completed the novel before ""Casino Royale"" was published in January 1953, four months before his second book was published. Fleming and his wife Ann flew to New York before taking the Silver Meteor train to St. Petersburg in Florida and"
"The Favourite Game The Favourite Game is the first novel by Leonard Cohen. It was first published by Secker and Warburg in the fall of 1963. In 1959, Cohen was awarded a $2,000 Canada Council grant, which he used to live cheaply in London and on the Greek island of Hydra while he wrote the novel, then titled ""Beauty at Close Quarters"". When he returned to Canada in 1960, it was rejected by his publisher McClelland & Stewart. Jack McClelland was concerned about the autobiographical content and found the novel to be tedious and preoccupied with sex. He suggested major"
"The Favourite Game The Favourite Game is the first novel by Leonard Cohen. It was first published by Secker and Warburg in the fall of 1963. In 1959, Cohen was awarded a $2,000 Canada Council grant, which he used to live cheaply in London and on the Greek island of Hydra while he wrote the novel, then titled ""Beauty at Close Quarters"". When he returned to Canada in 1960, it was rejected by his publisher McClelland & Stewart. Jack McClelland was concerned about the autobiographical content and found the novel to be tedious and preoccupied with sex. He suggested major"
"The Financier Published in 1912, The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser, is the first volume of the ""Trilogy of Desire"", which includes ""The Titan"" (1914) and ""The Stoic"" (1947). In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his"
"novel by the nineteenth-century French author Ludovic Halévy. The first casino on the Las Vegas Strip to employ dancing girls as a diversion between acts was the El Rancho Vegas in 1941. Showgirls were presented in Las Vegas in 1952 as the opening and closing act for Las Vegas headliners, sometimes dancing around the headliner. They were introduced at the Sands Casino for a show with Danny Thomas. In 1957 Minsky's Follies took the stage at the Desert Inn giving birth to the topless showgirl in Vegas. This was followed by a long-running ""The Lido de Paris"" at the Stardust"
"Hot Springs (novel) Hot Springs () is a fictional work by Stephen Hunter, published in 2000. Hot Springs is a novel telling about gangsters and gambling in U.S. city Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is the first novel in the series featuring Hunter's character Earl Swagger. It is summer 1946 and Earl Swagger, former Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor, feels he is an angry man with nowhere to go in the post-war peace. But then he joins a new war, the one against organized crime, and in this hellish crucible rediscovers his courageous true self. Right after the"
"a work on a far larger scale."" His first novel, ""The Man Who Started Clean"", which told the story of a young man who had to recover his identity after a traumatic head injury in an automobile accident was published in 1937, the reviews were only mildly positive. In ""The Spectator"", Kate O'Brien wrote that ""It is all very carefully written—and nothing is missed or left out except that imaginative drive or passion which might have made a magnificent problem out of what is in fact only a neat piece of invention,"" and The New York Times reviewer assessed that"
"Pat Hearne Patrick L. ""Pat"" Hearne, also spelled Hern, Hearn or Herne, (died July 4, 1859) was an American gambler, sportsman and underworld figure in New York City during the mid-19th century. He was the first man, along with fellow gambler Henry Colton, to open ""first-class"" casinos in the city during the 1830s. His self-named resort in lower Broadway was especially popular in the years prior to the American Civil War and regarded in the city as ""perhaps the most famous gambler of the era"". Born in Waterford, Ireland, Patrick Hearne belonged to a family who ""held a most high"
"career as a writer really began, however, when he made a bet with his wife that he could write a better mystery novel than the ones they were reading during a rainy family vacation. He drew on his professional experience as a CPA and wrote his first novel, ""Death and Taxes"", featuring San Francisco tax expert and reluctant detective James ""Whit"" Whitney. It was published by Macmillan in 1941 and he won five dollars from Elva. Three more Whitney novels soon followed: ""Shear the Black Sheep"" (Macmillan, 1942), ""Bullets for the Bridegroom"" (Macmillan, 1944) and ""It Ain't Hay"" (Simon &"
"Night and the City (novel) Night and the City is the third novel by British author Gerald Kersh, published in 1938. It is a crime thriller set in 1930s London but also deals with social realism themes in the aftermath of the Great Depression. The protagonist of the novel is Harry Fabian, a morally reprehensible spiv determined to become the top wrestling promoter in London. During the course of the novel Fabian is embroiled in various unscrupulous money-making ventures. All those around him are treated as a means to an end without exception. However, while his acts of pimping, blackmail"
"The accompanying illustrations were uncredited. This version did not contain any chapter divisions. Sad Cypress Sad Cypress is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March 1940 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at eight shillings and threepence (8/3) – the first price rise for a UK Christie edition since her 1921 debut – and the US edition retailed at $2.00. The novel was the first novel in the Poirot series set at least"
"that ""it doesn't fail to deliver what a good horror story should,"" that ""it delivers it elegantly,"" and that ""come(s) to grip with the classic themes."" The Damnation Game (novel) The Damnation Game is a horror novel by English writer Clive Barker, published in 1985. It was written just after finishing the first trilogy of ""Books of Blood"", and tells a Faustian story that touches on topics such as incest, cannibalism, and self-mutilation in a frank and detailed manner. It was his first novel. Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard"
"qui sent le soufre..."" (""the role-playing game with the scent of sulphur"") The game is set during the early part of the French Third Republic (1870–1940). It is a time where the reason, science and industry of the cities is confronting the superstitions, legends, and witchcraft of the countryside. The players' characters are ordinary people, who belong to ""le Club Pythagore"" (""The Pythagorean Club""), an association of gentlemen (and ladies) dedicated to fighting the darkness, with the help of Faith, Science, or even Magic. The players must expect mystery and the supernatural rather than the gore and overt fantastical elements"
"It gives three pages to write in, with a simple pencil/eraser system. The game takes place at Hotel Dusk, a fictional, rundown motel in Nevada, in 1979. Kyle Hyde, a former New York City detective and now working as a salesman for Red Crown, has arrived at the hotel in his search for his former partner, Brian Bradley, and is given Room 215, a room rumored to be able to grant wishes. Kyle finds that the hotel has many mysteries as well as connections to his past, and begins to look into these further. The order of the discovery of"
"Evil Under the Sun Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October of the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The novel features Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot, who takes a holiday in Devon. During his stay, he notices a young woman who is flirtatious and attractive, but not well liked by a number of guests. When she is"
"several assassination and abduction attempts by enemy agents that Jeems' takes as and admire as an epitome of coolness. Taking Pennant to a casino run by gangsters where his boarding house companions work, Pennant is introduced to his first alcoholic drink that sets Pennant off to breaking the bank of the casino, winning $900 and the admiration of every woman in sight. The chief of the gangsters have his thugs start a brawl in order to knockout Pennant and take back their money but Jeems goes off like a hand grenade where he demolishes the casino and beats up a"
"Rankin. Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903), is an early example of spy fiction. A noted writer in the spy novel genre was John le Carré, while in thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), and nine short story works. Hungarian-born Emma Orczy's (1865–1947) original play, ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", opened in October 1903 at Nottingham's Theatre Royal but was not a"
"went on to author three more books. Irving Lazar was her first agent. She also wrote ""Sometimes Paradise"", which was about the anguish of country club acceptance, ""Winners"", which was about the 1980s ""salad days of this decade's glitzoid."" In 1991, she released ""Unsuitable Company"", which was ""partly about a struggle to keep a Midwest-based manufacturing concern alive in the face of an eviscerating takeover attempt by a ruthless, greedy conglomerate pirate. Most of the story, however, turns on a cat fight between two desperate trophy wives over the purchase rights to an $11 million apartment at one of Fifth"