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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![The Big Fix](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqnp8zxmfxy5a9p3xgwkgp88/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260914%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260914T025102Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=72f3b3c402c37bef7b75fc1d55ce326ac62c9d665185b650ee0cadc42471cc58) ## About this work The Big Fix by George O. (George Oliver) Smith, Bernklau \[Illustrator\] — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside Illustrated by Bernklau THE BIG FIX BY GEORGE O. SMITH Anyone who holds that telepathy and psi powers would mean an end to crime quite obviously underestimates the ingenuity of the human race. Now consider a horserace that had to be fixed ... t was April, a couple of weeks before the Derby. We were playing poker, which is a game of skill that has nothing to do with the velocity of horse meat. Phil Howland kept slipping open but he managed to close up before I could tell whether the combination of Three-Five-Two-Four meant a full house of fives over fours or whether he was betting on an open-ended straight that he hadn't bothered to arrange in order as he held them. The Greek was impenetrable; he also blocked me from reading the deck so that I could estimate his hand from the cards that weren't dealt out. Chicago Charlie's mind was easy to read but no one could trust him. He was just as apt to think high to score someone out as he was to think low to suck the boys in. As for me, there I was, good old Wally Wilson, holding a pat straight flush from the eight to the queen of diamonds. I was thinking "full house" but I was betting like a weak three of a kind. It was a terrific game. Between trying to read into these other guy's brains and keeping them from opening mine, and blocking the Greek's sly stunt of tipping over the poker chips as a distraction, I was also concerned about the eight thousand bucks that was in the pot. The trouble was that all four of us fully intended to rake it in. My straight flush would be good for the works in any normal game… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fthe-big-fix) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. [Sign in to leave a review](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fthe-big-fix) No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. 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