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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo Robin Quinn

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo By Robin Quinn

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Robin Quinn


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Summary

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

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo Summary

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: Charles Deville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire by Robin Quinn

The incredible true story of the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.

Charles Deville Wells has two loves in his life: a beautiful French mistress named Jeannette and his sumptuous yacht, the Palais Royal. At the risk of losing them both, Wells stakes everything he owns at the roulette tables in Monte Carlo's world-famous casino - and in the space of a few days he breaks the bank, not once but ten times, winning the equivalent of millions in today's money.

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

Based on painstaking research on both sides of the Channel and beyond, this biography reveals the incredible true story of the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo - an individual who went on to become 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'.

About Robin Quinn

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).

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GOR007980945
9780750961776
0750961775
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: Charles Deville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire by Robin Quinn
Used - Very Good
Hardback
The History Press Ltd
20160801
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