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The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of To-day

Chapter 1: THE SACK OF MONTE CARLO
By Walter Frith
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A first-person narrator recounts the planning and execution of a bold amateur raid on the gambling tables at Monte Carlo. He recruits acquaintances, outfits a steam-yacht, and devises a careful scheme presented as partly charitable; interpersonal tensions, romantic motives, and unreliable collaborators complicate preparations. The party carries out a dramatic sack of the casino, confronts legal and personal consequences, and flees across Europe while scrambling to conceal or distribute the proceeds. The narrative balances caper plotting, social comedy, and reflection on motive and consequence.

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Title: The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of To-day

Author: Walter Frith

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Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SACK OF MONTE CARLO: AN ADVENTURE OF TO-DAY ***

THE SACK OF MONTE CARLO

An Adventure of To-day

 

As narrated by Vincent Blacker, Esq.

Lieutenant H.M.’s East ——shire Militia

 

BY

WALTER FRITH

AUTHOR OF “IN SEARCH OF QUIET”

Quo timoris minus est, eo minus est Periculi

Livy, xii., 5

 

title

 

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

1898

By WALTER FRITH.

IN SEARCH OF QUIET. A Country Journal, May

    to July. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.

 

    A very entertaining book, written in a very entertaining

style.—Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.

    A book which will enchain the attention of the reader

from beginning to end.—Boston Advertiser.

NEW YORK AND LONDON:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.

TO

 

Mrs. F. W. SHARON

 

IN RECOLLECTION OF MANY HAPPY HOURS IN

 

NEW YORK, ÉTRETAT, AND PARIS

 

London, October, 1897