ABSTRACT
Captain Abdullah is perhaps the best man with cards among present-day writers. He also is one of the best with a typewriter, so far as that goes, but at poker he is a Dickens. A colorist in his work, he is as well no design in lavender and old lace in his living, as anyone knows who reads his The Cat Had Nine Lives. In it, like most autobiographies, I suppose the author gave himself the edge; but if s the other fellow who needs the edge when the monocle of Syyed Shaykh Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Iddris-eyieh el-Durani gleams above the baize. I should have enjoyed seeing him tangle with Bill Mizner. Meanwhile, here’s “The Ambassador of Poker.”
