The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

Charles De Ville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire

Robin Quinn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2023 | New edition
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80399-373-7 (ISBN)

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The definitive biography of Charles Deville Wells, and his Monte Carlo casino playground

THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO.

'Brilliant – a terrific read' - Michael Aspel OBE

'The best book I’ve read all year' - Nigel Jones, editor, Devonshire Magazine

Charles Deville Wells broke the bank at Monte Carlo – not once but ten times – winning the equivalent of millions in today’s money. He followed up with a colossal bank fraud in Paris, and became Europe’s most wanted criminal, hunted by British and French police and known in the press as ‘Monte Carlo Wells – the man with 36 aliases’.

Is he phenomenally lucky? Has he really invented an ‘infallible’ gambling system, as he claims? Or is he just an exceptionally clever fraudster?

ROBIN QUINN is an author and independent radio producer based in South-East England. His first book, Hitler's Last Army (THP), is the story of the 400,000 German prisoners of war detained in Britain during and after the Second World War. He contributes to family history and other magazines, and has written and produced over sixty programmes for BBC network radio, including the critically acclaimed Summer of 1940 and The Cuban Crisis (Radio 2).

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	35 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-80399-373-1 / 1803993731
ISBN-13	978-1-80399-373-7 / 9781803993737
Zustand	Neuware