A Prince of Swindlers
A narrator admits that he unintentionally introduced a charismatic impostor into fashionable London during a season of visiting sovereigns, after which the newcomer carries out a sequence of elaborate confidence schemes. High-society settings, stolen jewels, gambling and racing intrigues, and a celebrated private detective draw the city's aristocracy and servants into the plot, while the narrator reconstructs events, relationships, and betrayals and ultimately obtains a confession that exposes how the fraudster manipulated social ranks and engineered his crimes.
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A narrator admits that he unintentionally introduced a charismatic impostor into fashionable London during a season of visiting sovereigns, after which the newcomer carries out a sequence of elaborate confidence schemes. High-society settings, stolen jewels, gambling and racing intrigues, and a celebrated private detective draw the city's aristocracy and servants into the plot, while the narrator reconstructs events, relationships, and betrayals and ultimately obtains a confession that exposes how the fraudster manipulated social ranks and engineered his crimes.
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