The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: Charles De Ville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire

Name: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: Charles De Ville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire
Brand: The History Press Ltd
Price: 19.91 EUR
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English

By (author): 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 Carlos 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 todays 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 Europes most wanted criminal, hunted by British and French police and known in the press as Monte Carlo Wells the man with 36 aliases.

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Product Details

Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2016
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780750961776

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 400000 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).