The Slaying Of Joseph Bowne Elwell Author:Jonathan Goodman The unlucky ace of spades was a card that Joseph Bowne Elwell, the 'Wizard of Whist', might well have been dealt just prior to the sweltering-hot day in June 1920 when somebody somehow managed to obtain access to his art-filled house in Manhattan, shot him through the head, and then disappeared, as if into thin air -- thereby creating one of the... more » most fascinating true-crime mysteries of the century.« less