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Charles De Ville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire
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?
21st February, 2017 in History, True Crime
For as long as they have existed, stock markets have attracted fraudsters. An early stock exchange scam, involving one of the greatest seamen of the age, Lord Cochrane, is a powerful and fascinating tale of greed, deceit and public humiliation. In February 1814, news arrived in D…
22nd August, 2016 in True Crime
The tiny principality of Monaco is the second-smallest sovereign state in the world, and could easily fit into London’s Hyde Park with room to spare. Yet it has become one of the world’s most prestigious and wealthiest resorts. But in earlier times things were very different. In…
