Dead man's hand Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book "Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers" led to the popular modern conception of the "dead man's hand" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's
And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game is a novel written by David Forrest (pen-name used by English novelists Robert Forrest-Webb and David Eliades). It is the best known novel of the author(s). First published in 1969, the novel tells the story of a Russian spy-ship (the "Dmitri Kirov") crashing into Albert's small island in the Isles of Scilly. Desperate to stop the ship's highly-secret equipment falling into the