A Game of Chance

1920 novel
A Game of Chance
Title page for A Game of Chance (1922)
AuthorArthur Wright
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBookstall series
GenreSporting
PublisherNSW 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.

Reception

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]

References

  1. ^ "REVIEW". Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950). Wollongong, NSW: National Library of Australia. 23 May 1919. p. 1. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  2. ^ "A SPORTING NOVEL". Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 20 November 1919. p. 38. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

External links

  • Copy of complete novel at Internet Archive
  • A Game of Chance at AustLit
  • A Game of Chance at National Archives of Australia
  • Serialisation of story in The World's News in 1919 - 22 March, 29 March, 5 April, 12 April, 19 April, 26 April, 3 May, 10 May, 17 May, 24 May, 31 May, 7 June, 14 June, 21 June, 28 June, 5 July
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