Luke Rhinehart which uses dice in various books to lead to spiritual life changes. Luke Rhinehart and The Dice Man have influenced or been referenced in several songs: Other music connections: The brewers of Rolling Rock pale lager launched a series of adverts based around the Dice Man theme, and even a 'Dice Life' website, now defunct. In the 1980s, the UK comic 2000 AD published several Gamebook magazines under the name "Dice Man". Luke Rhinehart Luke Rhinehart (born George Powers Cockcroft November 15, 1932) is an American novelist and screenwriter, author of eleven books. He is best known for his 1971
The King Is Dead (novel) The King Is Dead (novel) The King Is Dead is a novel published in 1951 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set primarily on a fictional island, but also partly in Wrightsville, a fictional small town in the northeastern United States that figures in several Queen stories. Munitions maker King Bendigo is the wealthiest man alive, and what the King wants, the King gets. What he wants is the investigative powers of Ellery Queen and his father, New York homicide detective Richard Queen, in order to investigate some threatening letters. Bendigo has an enormous security apparatus in place