5 Ergebnisse.

Art Fraser, the bridge-playing cop who made his debut in "Takeout Double" is faced with a new mystery. Bodies are piling up in cottage country in upper New York state, and once again bridge seems to be an intrinsic part of the case. Fraser is having to wrestle with problems in his personal life too, as he faces career and family decisions at the same time as he is tracking down a ruthless killer.

If defense is the hardest part of playing bridge (and it is!) then defending at matchpoint scoring is the toughest challenge a player can face. Every trick matters, irrespective of the contract, and every decision is potentially critical. In "Thinking on Defense, " Jim Priebe introduced the idea of visualization, picturing likely hands for declarer and basing defensive strategy on those. In this book he show how to apply the same methods when ...

Art Fraser, the bridge-playing detective, is called back to Boston, where a robbery at the ACBL Fall Nationals has left one man dead and a whole lot of money missing. The local cops aren't overjoyed to have Fraser involved, but they're struggling to understand the ins and outs of the bridge tournament world.

Defense is the most difficult part of bridge, and for most players, the hardest part of defense is figuring out what to do. In this book, the reader is shown step-by-step how to visualize declarer's cards from the bidding and play, and then how to use this information to form a plan for the defense. This book is based on Jim Priebe's popular articles 'Visualization on Defense' which appeared in the ACBL Bulletin in early 2001.

Bob Smithers is dead, although few in the tournament bridge scene will shed any tears. Art Fraser, the ambitious Buffalo police lieutenant assigned to the case, knows the bridge world well. But Smithers made enemies easily, both at the bridge table and away from it, and Art has plenty of potential murderers to investigate. Even his own bridge friends have to be treated as suspects, and he begins to uncover a complex tangle of jealousy, ambitio...