The Man Who Broke Monte Carlo

Author : Robin Quinn
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969261
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo written by Robin Quinn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Anne Fletcher
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671409
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Mill to Monte Carlo written by Anne Fletcher and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only Monte Carlo gambler to devise an infallible and completely legal system to break the bank.

Author : Michael Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo written by Michael Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman Leigh
Publisher : High Stakes
ISBN 13 : 9781843440321
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Against the Bank written by Norman Leigh and published by High Stakes. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1966 Norman Leigh took a team to the Casino Municipal in Nice with the express intention of systematically winning large sums of money at roulette. Two weeks later the team was banned from every casino in France. Not for cheating, or rowdy behaviour - but for winning, methodically and consistently. An absolute classic detailing the events leading up to - and, most importantly, the system that allowed this to happen - an event held as impossible by all expert opinion - breaking the bank at roulette.

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493029223
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grimaldis of Monaco written by Anne Edwards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world’s oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II, the Grimaldis—“an ambitious, hot-blooded, unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in battle”—have ruled Monaco. Against all odds, they have proved themselves masterful survivors, still in possession of their lands and titles despite the upheavals of the French Revolution and the First and Second World Wars, when royal heads rolled and most small countries met their demise. With insufficient weaponry and military forces far too small to go into combat against their more powerful neighbors, France and Italy, the Grimaldis endured by their cunning and their shrewd choice of brides—rich women and high connections in the most influential courts of Europe, and often, strong sexual appetites. The French nobleman’s daughter who married Louis I later became the mistress of France Louis XIV. Her son, Antoine I was wed to an aristocratic wife who outdid her mother-in-law by having so many lovers her husband took to hanging them in effigy. The seafaring adventurer Prince Albert I was unfortunate enough to have two wives, one British, one American, who ran off with their lovers. His second wife, the American Alice Heine, a fabulously rich heiress from New Orleans and the widowed Duchesse de Richelieu, was the model for Proust’s Princess of Luxembourg. Heine used her own wealth to bring grandeur, culture, and sophistication to the palatial center of Monte Carlo; and with the introduction of gambling, an internationally celebrated resort was born, initially for the privileged few and later for raffish café society, The last section of the book is devoted to the most recent generations of the Grimaldis. Here, a new image of Rainier III emerges as both man and monarch, beginning with his blighted childhood as the son of divorced parents and of a mother scorned as illegitimate. And preceding the drama of his marriage to Grace Kelly, there is an account of his intense love affair with a French film start and reasons behind his sister’s lifelong malice and envy of him. The final note is necessarily tragic, detailing in full the deaths of both Princess Grace and Princess Caroline’s husband in sudden and shocking accidents

Author : Robin Quinn
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781803993737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo written by Robin Quinn and published by History Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Charles Deville Wells, and his Monte Carlo casino playground

Author : Ted Maher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151075587X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framed in Monte Carlo written by Ted Maher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured on 60 Minutes, Dateline, Inside Edition, and 48 Hours, the shocking true story of banker Edmond Safra's death and the man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the crime. When billionaire banker Edmond Safra died in the ashes of Monaco’s La Belle Époque building on December 3, 1999, the event made international headlines—for many reasons. One, of course, was the sheer wealth of the Lebanese mogul and his formidable presence in the international banking world. But the more seductive reason for the worldwide attention was the strange and intriguing way Safra died—ensconced within the armored walls of his vigilantly secured residence in the “safest city in the world.” At 4:45 in the morning, a firestorm gutted Safra’s opulent Monte Carlo penthouse, trapping—and killing—Safra and one of his nurses, Vivian Torrente. When the fire was ruled arson, a fast finger was pointed at the only other nurse present: former Green Beret Ted Maher. The true, bizarre circumstances that led to Safra’s death and to the subsequent imprisonment of Ted Maher are contained within the pages of Framed in Monte Carlo: How I Was Wrongfully Convicted for a Billionaire’s Fiery Death. The story features a play-by-play of that deadly night, as well as Ted’s sham of a trial that put him behind bars for seven years and eight months. Brutal betrayals, harrowing kidnappings, prison breaks straight out of The Great Escape, and more pepper the pages of Framed in Monte Carlo. Ted was freed when the judge from his trial came forward with a stunning revelation. But his life was never the same. And since his return to American soil, he’s continued to unearth more and more disturbing details about his ordeal. Armed with fresh facts, a greater understanding of the players, and a wider lens of perspective, Ted now reveals all, including his never-before-released findings that seek to answer the lingering big question: Who did kill Edmond Safra? The powerful famous names legitimately put forth by the author will shock you.

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Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398114545
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke's America written by Alistair Cooke and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Alistair Cooke's classic work, which has sold ore than 2 million copies to date. Full of Cooke's signature wit and wisdom, this is a lucid and illuminating history of the United States. Republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the classic BBC series.

Author : Robin Quinn
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752483315
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Last Army written by Robin Quinn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, 400,000 German servicemen were imprisoned on British soil, some remaining until 1948. These defeated men in their tattered uniforms were, in every sense, Hitler's Last Army. Britain used the prisoners as an essential labour force, especially in agriculture, and in the devastating winter of 1947 the Germans helped avert a national disaster by clearing snow and stemming floods, working shoulder to shoulder with Allied troops. Slowly, friendships were forged between former enemies. Some POWs fell in love with British women, though such relationships were often frowned upon: 'Falling pregnant outside marriage was bad enough – but with a German POW ...!' Using exclusive interviews with former prisoners, as well as extensive archive material, this book looks at the Second World War from a fresh perspective – that of Britain's German prisoners, from the shock of being captured to their final release long after the war had ended.