Hard Knocker's Luck

Shifty Lou Anderson #2

by William Murray

The horse-playing sleuth and magician, Lou "Shifty" Anderson gets involved with a beautiful shoplifter, an art dealer, a down-at-heel artist, a sometime actress, and their various racetrack plots, plans, and perils

265 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

William Murray was an American fiction editor and staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He wrote a series of mystery novels set in the world of horse racing, many featuring Shifty Lou Anderson, a professional magician and horseplayer. Among his many contributions to The New Yorker was the magazine's "Letters from Italy" of which he was the sole author. The majority of his later years were spent living in Del Mar, California, "exactly 3.2 miles from the finish line" of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Murray died in March 2005 at age 78. Just prior to his death, Murray had completed a book about Chicago's Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

SECOND in the Shifty Lou Anderson series of mystery tales involving horse players. On to the third.

[Hugh Heinsohn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Engaging characters and situations. Well plotted. Morally ambiguous. Enjoyable look at the world of horse racing.

[Paul Wilner]

Man, he can do it...