The Latimer Lunch Club

Below you will find the original first chapter that I wrote for All About Sniff. At the advice of my editors, the final publication focused on the game and the rules of Sniff — leaving much of my appreciation and feelings without a home.

I share it with you now in gratitude for your kindness and friendship over many years. It recounts my introduction to the club, the game, and the men I learned it from. I set it aside before the book went to print, and it has not been published anywhere until now.

Every name was re-invented to protect the privacy of the club and its members. A true name appears below only where the person, or their family, has said it may. Everyone else reads as the original pseudonym.

I first wrote this in 2014, as a lasting tribute to the club and to all of its Sniff players over the years — those still at the table, and those no longer with us.