Bridge Game In Mystery Story.

[HaizeyDays]

Hello,

I faintly remember a Sherlock Holmes story in which SH takes a deck of cards from a club, takes them home, looks at each trick in turn and analyses whether the dead man was a good bridge player or not.

Does this story exist, and if so, can anyone tell me what it is? It may not even be Sherlock Holmes but some other literary detective! As i say, i can only half remember it!

I've had no luck using google. Unfortunately, as soon as you type in 'bridge' it brings up all sorts of rubbish.

Many thanks,

Haizeydays

[ladyalex]

I cannot think of a Sherlock Holmes story about Bridge, but there was a Hercule Poirot one where someone was murdered at a bridge game.
I cannot remember the title, but I'll try to ferret it out.

[ladyalex]

The Poirot one is called Cards on the Table, but I'm not sure it is the one you want.

[HaizeyDays]

Thankyou, but it isn't Cards on the Table that I'm thinking about. Or the Poirot one with the missing King of Clubs!

H

[Old_Geezer]

Unfortunately what Holmes failed to notice was that the dead man wasn't playing bridge, but snap !

(His opponent lost because they were left with Mrs. Bun, the baker's wife.)

[HaizeyDays]

That made me chuckle.

[Buenchico]

I've read all of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories (and seen most of them countless times on TV and film, as well as listening to them over and over again on radio) and I'm not familiar with the story you refer to.

However I'd be prepared to risk a bet on it being in one of the books listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Thomas#Bibliography
because the author of those Sherlock Holmes books, Frankie Thomas, was a recognised expert on bridge strategy.

[SirOracle]

Divebuddy The OP doesn't say that it was Contract bridge. It could have been Auction bridge which preceded C/bridge and commenced around 1900.

There were also two earlier forms of the game played prior to 1900.

[Buenchico]

Mystery solved?
http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Bridge-Detective-Returns/dp/0939460262

[SirOracle]

Sherlock would not be proud of you divebuddy,making assumptions like that. :-)

[TheFrogman]

I presume he told Watson that it "was quite a three-pip problem"...