Kategoria BISAC: Games & Activities >> Card Games - Bridge

The authors reveal all readers need to know to play chess & bridge in this instructional guide. It examines the basic principles of the games, the rules, histories of the games and more advanced concepts such as bidding and card play.

Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a bum bridge player. For such insubordination, he slaps her hard in front of their stunned guests and announces he is leaving. Moments later, sobbing, with a Colt .32 pistol
in hand, Myrtle fires four shots, killing her husband.
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