Gary Pomerantz discusses his narrative from the Roaring 20's, *The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand and a New American Age *, about a bridge-table killing and murder trial in Kansas City, and the contract bridge card game craze that swept America.
**Gary Pomerantz** is a nonfiction author and journalist, and has served the past twelve years as a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Pomerantz has devoted his writing, and teaching, to American history, race relations, the media, and sports.