The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Victorian Fraudsters Who Almost Broke the Bank of England by Nicholas Booth

The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Victorian Fraudsters Who Almost Broke the Bank of England

Nicholas Booth

missing page info Add in missing page information • first pub 2014 (editions)

dark informative tense slow-paced
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Late in 1873, London was gripped by the astonishing story emerging from the highest court in the land, where four American conmen were on trial for attempting the greatest financial scam the world had ever seen. Their leader, Austin Bidwell, had ...

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