 Title page for A Game of Chance (1922) | |
| Author | Arthur Wright |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Series | Bookstall series |
| Genre | Sporting |
| Publisher | NSW Bookstall Company |
Publication date | 1920 |
A Game of Chance is a 1920 sporting novel by Arthur Wright, [1] about sensational events in the world of Australian horse racing.
According to the reviewer in the Western Mail:
Hero and heroine and villain of the piece are well enough drawn; and there is incident enough in the book to satisfy the veriest glutton for sensation; while towards the close of an exciting story the murder trial... finishes in a most unexpected manner. Mr. Arthur Wright has been compared with the late Nat Gould; and as a rule, his books contain even greater dramatic, or melodramatic, possibilities, or impossibilities, than the numerous works of that most prolific writer. [2]
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