Title: Funny money
Subtitle: a mystery featuring Tony Valentine
Description: Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won't spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years and learned every trick of the trade--until a new one blows him away.With his old partner murdered in a bomb blast, Tony returns to A.C. to retrace Doyle Flanagan's last case. Investigating a six-million-dollar casino takedown, a square cop soon meets a whole lot of bent people, from a beautiful lady wrestler to some Manhattan mobsters; from a trio of beautiful casino "consultants" to a team of Eurotrash blackjack card counters. But while everyone around Tony Valentine (including Tony's own son) is playing some kind of angle, Tony is determined to find a killer who is playing for keeps. . . . From the Paperback edition.
Subjects: Mystery, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators in fiction, Gamblers in fiction, Tony Valentine (Fictitious character), Fiction, Suspense, Swindlers and swindling in fiction, Swindlers and swindling, Mystery fiction, Blackjack (Game), Gamblers, Détectives, Romans, nouvelles, Escroqueries, Vingt-et-un (Jeu), Joueurs (Jeux de hasard), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Atlantic city (n.j.), fiction, Valentine, tony (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction
Places: New Jersey, Atlantic City (N.J.), Atlantic City