Author: V. B.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Ten Days at Monte Carlo at the Bank's Expense
Author: V. B.The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Author: Robin QuinnPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750969261
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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?
Monte Carlo anecdotes and systems of play
Author: Victor BethellPublisher: Victor Bethell
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Monte Carlo anecdotes and systems of play
The Doctrine of Chances
Author: Stewart N. EthierPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540787836
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Three centuries ago Montmort and De Moivre published two books on probability theory emphasizing its most important application at that time, games of chance. This book, on the probabilistic aspects of gambling, is a modern version of those classics.
The Best Books
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
The Thought Reader Craze
Author: Barry H. WileyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786490632
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Beginning in 1870, the hunger for scientific discovery in Great Britain drove prominent scientists, philosophers and others to promote the legitimacy of telepathy. At the same time, mind-reading as a form of entertainment gained increasing popularity as persuasive performers like John Randall Brown, W.I. Bishop, and Stuart C. Cumberland convinced reporters that they truly could read the thoughts of others. The widely publicized, sometimes bizarre, interactions between scientists and these charlatans ushered in the Thought Reader Craze, a period that lasted through about 1910 and saw entertainers make and lose fortunes and scientists make and lose reputations. This volume explores this unusual cultural phenomenon, showing how it was aided through the years by public scientific pronouncements, astonishing performances by the thought readers, and the rapidly changing industrial society.
Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes
Author: Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
Author: Tresham GilbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Making Monte Carlo
Author: Mark BraudePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147670970X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich, only to be crushed under it's own weight ten years later"--Provided by publisher.
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