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Readers who enjoy pursuit stories with disguises, secret hideouts and night drives will love this book, as will those drawn to Weimar Germany, early psychology and hypnosis.
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What would you do if your own voice told a lie at the card table, and your hand obeyed it? That is what happens to a young man named Hull in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler. He holds twenty-one, the best hand in the game, and hears himself say that he has lost.
Norbert Jacques wrote this crime novel in Germany after the First World War. It is set in Munich, where paper money is nearly worthless and everyone gambles on something. Wenk, a state prosecutor, hunts Dr. Mabuse, a doctor of the mind who hides a criminal empire behind a brass plate.
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- 1A stranger takes Hull's will at cardsFree
- 2Two men named Balling and a nervous prosecutor
- 3Wenk hunts the blond-bearded banker at Schramm's
- 4The Chinese glasses and the ride to Schleissheim
- 5Mabuse's private state and his dream of Eitopomar
- 6The Fort gambling house and the murder of Hull
- 7The countess in prison and the ruin of Count Told
- 8Money and chance have taken over a whole nation
- 9Will, hypnosis and desire drive both hunter and hunted
- 10How the book is told, from chase to night raid
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A stranger takes Hull's will at cards
The book opens in a Munich gaming club. An elegant old gentleman with a white pearl stickpin sits down to play twenty-one. He gives his name as Balling. Young Hull, heir to an industrial fortune, has brought him along.
Balling takes the bank, and Hull begins to lose. In the last round Hull shouts va banque and sees twenty-one. Then something inside him flings the cards face down and cries that he has lost. Balling's gray eyes flare, and he says only that it is too late.
Hull wakes as if from a fall and finds the winning hand in the discarded pile. He signs a note for twenty thousand marks and cannot remember bringing the stranger himself. The winner here needs no trick with the deck, only a will stronger than the loser's.
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Questions about El doctor Mabuse, el jugador
What is Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler about?
It follows Wenk, a Munich state prosecutor, as he tracks a gambler who wins by controlling people's minds. The trail leads to Dr. Mabuse, a psychiatrist who runs a criminal network and dreams of founding his own kingdom.
Who is Dr. Mabuse in the novel?
Mabuse is a doctor of psychopathology with powerful hypnotic skills. He appears in many disguises, runs smuggling and gambling operations, and hides his real life behind a brass plate on a quiet Munich street.
What does Eitopomar mean in the book?
Eitopomar is the name Mabuse gives to the private kingdom he wants to found in the Brazilian forest. All the money he takes is meant to pay for it, and it shows his wish to rule without any state above him.
When was Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler written and is it a true story?
Norbert Jacques wrote it in the early years after the First World War, and it is fiction. It uses real conditions of the time, such as inflation, secret gambling houses and smuggling, to give its criminal plot a believable setting.
Is Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler worth reading?
The book offers a fast chase in short chapters, vivid scenes such as the ceiling horse race at the Fort house, and an early picture of hypnosis and crime. Readers who like detective stories and Weimar-era settings find a lot to enjoy.
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Jacques, Norbert. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.
Jacques, N. (2026). Dr. Mabuse, the gambler. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/dr-mabuse-the-gambler (Original work published 1921)
Jacques, Norbert. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.
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author = {Jacques, Norbert},
title = {Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1921}
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