Dead man's hand in popular culture "Wild Cards" series. In "Batman R.I.P.", while Batman is talking to The Joker in Arkham Asylum, the Joker sends a cryptic message to Batman by dealing himself a "dead man's hand, with a twist." The "twist" is that the 8's in the hand are red cards, while the aces remain black. His final card is a Joker. In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, McMurphy has a dead man's hand tattooed on his shoulder, "a poker hand fanned out across his muscle - aces and eights". The title of the fourth novel based on the film "Final
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