THE PENNY ANTE SOCIETY

Low stakes at the table.
High stakes in the cases.

A faculty poker group. A meeting of academic minds. Mysteries that reach far beyond the cards.

Discover an amateur sleuth mystery series where academic disciplines help unravel cold and current cases.

Playing cards, poker chips and academic books arranged on a faculty common-room table.

Academic minds. Amateur sleuths.

The cards are only the beginning.

At the heart of The Penny Ante Society is a faculty poker group whose members bring their academic disciplines to the business of solving mysteries.

Cold cases and current investigations draw these amateur sleuths beyond the table. The series brings scholarly inquiry into conversation with the questions at the heart of a mystery: what happened, what matters, and what has been overlooked?

There is more beyond the table.

The stories

Follow the series from the bookshelf to the author's latest notes.

The people & places

Explore the ensemble and the academic world surrounding the cases.

Between chapters

Make room for music, or learn more about the work behind the series.