A Game of Chance is a 1920 sporting novel by Arthur Wright,[1] about sensational events in the world of Australian horse racing.

A Game of Chance
Title page for A Game of Chance (1922)
AuthorArthur Wright
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBookstall series
GenreSporting
PublisherNSW Bookstall Company
Publication date
1920
Publication placeAustralia

Reception

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According to the reviewer in the Western Mail:

Hero and heroine and villain of the piece are well enough drawn; and there is incident enough in the book to satisfy the veriest glutton for sensation; while towards the close of an exciting story the murder trial... finishes in a most unexpected manner. Mr. Arthur Wright has been compared with the late Nat Gould; and as a rule, his books contain even greater dramatic, or melodramatic, possibilities, or impossibilities, than the numerous works of that most prolific writer.[2]

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  1. ^ "REVIEW". Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950). Wollongong, NSW: National Library of Australia. 23 May 1919. p. 1. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  2. ^ "A SPORTING NOVEL". Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 20 November 1919. p. 38. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
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