Gordon-Cumming and the Bloody Baccarat
A country house, a crooked card, and a prince on the stand turned good breeding into front-page theatre.Read More 
The Baxter Faro That Ate the Tenner
A jolting little faro bank in 1870s London where a neat suit, a crooked deal and one man called William Baxter made gentlemen look disgracefully mortal.Read More 
Charles Cora Shot a Marshal and San Francisco Lost Its Mind
A gambler, a saloon, a shot in the street and a city that decided public justice could be done with a rope and a wagging finger.Read More 
Kate Townsend's Saloon and the Very Bad Night
She ran a saloon where brass flowed, cards lied, and the wrong sort of attention turned a lively room into a crime scene.Read More 
Bully Hayes and the Faro That Stole Newtons
He ran a ship where luck was sold cheap, people got cadged out of coin, and the Pacific looked the other way.Read More 
Soapy Smith's Final Hustle
He sold luck by the bar of soap, ran rigged card games, and ended up dead on a Skagway pier.Read More 
Crockford's Scandal: The Club That Ate Gentlemen
This is the lowdown on William Crockford's St James's den, the money, the cheats, and how high society learned to look foolish in public.Read More 
Kit Burns and the Bowery Den (wild, true)
A mid nineteenth-century New York saloon owner ran faro and bare-knuckle chaos and the papers acted like they discovered sin for the first time.Read More
