- Fiction in English, Fiction, general, Monte-carlo (monaco), fiction, Extortion
The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jeffrey Archer
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Coronet Books/Hodder and Staughton, Trafalgar Square Computer & Audio, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 70
- Language
- Italian, mar, Korean, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780312997137
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First sentence
“MAKING A MILLION legally has always been difficult.”
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