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Cover art by Jon Langford of The Mekons
An eldritch Western noir
Author has 2 books out in 2021 building up to this novel in 2022
About the author
Robert Freeman Wexler’s books include the novels
The Painting and the City and
Circus of the Grand Design and a collection,
Undiscovered Territories. His stories have appeared in
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Postscripts, The Third Alternative, Electric Velocipede, and
Polyphony. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio with the writer Rebecca Kuder. His website and blog can be found here: robertfreemanwexler.com.
Summary
In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker game to end all poker games.
Shannon, a Chicago private detective, returns home to Galveston, Texas for a wedding. Galveston’s new rabbi asks Shannon to find Nathan Silverberg, gone missing along with a group of swindlers who claim to be soliciting money for a future colony of Romanian Jewish refugees.
What seems to be a simple job soon pushes Shannon into stranger territory. His investigations lead him to a malevolent white-haired gambler, monstrous sand dune totems, and a group of skull-headed poker players trapped in an endless loop of cards and alcohol, who may be his only means to survive the business.
With The Silverberg Business, Robert Freeman Wexler has delivered a gloriously strange hard-boiled tale that crosses genres and defies expectations.
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10,000 print run
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