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Also by Carol O'Connell:

Blind Sight, October 2017
Mass Market Paperback
The Chalk Girl, July 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Find Me, January 2007
Hardcover
Winter House, November 2004
Hardcover
Dead Famous, October 2004
Paperback
Shell Game, August 2000
Paperback
Judas Child, August 1999
Paperback
Stone Angel, July 1998
Paperback
Killing Critics, July 1997
Paperback
The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, July 1996
Paperback
Mallory's Oracle, June 1995
Paperback

Shell Game
Carol O'Connell

Berkley
August 2000
Featuring: Kathleen Mallory
402 pages
ISBN: 0425176037
Paperback
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Mystery Police Procedural

Oliver Tree had spent his retirement years working out a solution to the Lost Illusion. Now, at last, he was about to give a death-defying performance in a sell-out festival of magicians in Manhattan.

In front of a live audience and the television cameras, four crossbow arrows were fired at their human target. The screams were real, and, tragically for Oliver Tree, so was the blood.

Even if Charles Butler, cousin of the late great Max Candle who had invented the Lost Illusion, was convinced along with eight million viewers that the trick had simply gone wrong, Detective Sgt Kathy Mallory knew instinctively that this was murder. A murder, curiously, that might be linked with the death of a woman half a century ago...

"O'Connell never ceases to amaze, producing what is surely her most stunning novel yet... anyone unmoved by the soul-shattering climax should give up reading fiction altogether" —Booklist

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2 comments posted.

Re: Shell Game

Scientific and technological progress does not stand still - with each
day, humanity inventing more and more devices and machines,
improves existing ones and does not think to stop along the way. One
of the flagships of this development is computer technology - three
decades ago it was believed that "640 kilobytes is enough for
everyone", and today a small smartphone is not inferior in performance
to an average office PC.

Strange as it may seem, the rapid development of computer
technologies accessible to the user is a great merit of video games. Do
not demand the next hit of all the large computing power that the
consumer is ready to shell out, you see, and there would not be such
productive machines that institutions and organizations have as half a
century ago, but practically any person.
(Anna May 10:57am May 20, 2018)

However, over the past decade and a half, in this respect, we have seen
only quantitative development - the CPU frequency has increased, the
amount of RAM and the power of video accelerators have increased,
and no one could offer something new until recently. And then
crawfadding came in - direct financing of individual enthusiasts who
did not find a publisher or who do not want to contact him. Someone
collected money for games or music, and Oculus VR swung at the old
dream of all fans of "virtual reality" - the same "glasses" that allow to
see what is happening in the game literally with their own eyes, and not
on a small screen of the monitor. On March 28 of this year sales of the
commercial version of the helmet started, and along with it a pack of
games "grounded" for the use of Oculus Rift came out. ADR1FTamong
them, perhaps, the brightest (both literally and figuratively)
representative.
(Anna May 10:58am May 20, 2018)