The Phantom Gamblers of the Silver State

Previously

…He flipped through the next few pages, his heart pounding. There, in another photograph, was Silas, his arm around a glamorous woman, her smile a little too bright, a little too strained. The date stamped on the back was October 17th, 1963. October 17th, 1963. The date resonated with a disquieting familiarity. He scrambled back to his notebooks, flipping through the pages until he found it – a brief, almost dismissive mention in an old newspaper clipping about the Flamingo. A sudden, unexplained closure of a high-stakes poker room for “renovations” on that very date, with rumors