The Gamblers - Hardcover

John, Pearson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844132056 ISBN 13: 9781844132058

Publisher: Century, 2005

Synopsis

For over thirty years, John Pearson has provided us with literary exposures of some of the most enigmatic people and underground organisations of our modern world. The Gamblers follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Asplnall; Dominic Elwes, who was to betray the Set's code of silence; the socialite owner of Annabel's, Mark Birley; the womanising, multi millionaire James Goldsmith; and the infamous Lord 'Lucky' Lucan. At the heart of the Set lay a belief that risk-takers are the people who make civilisation tick. Cruel, heartless and snobbish, they gambled with their fortunes and kept a stiff upper lip when they lost. This and a loyalty to each other that transcended everything else enabled them to rise above crises such as the long affair between Birley's wife and James Goldsmith, and the facial mutilation of the Birley's son by one of Aspinall's tigers. Pearson revels in the charisma, charm and wit of these dastardly but debonair millionaires, and reveals how their code led to one of the great unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.

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Review:

"Pearson's book advances a new theory on Lucan's fate ... written in a crisp, iconic style." --"Daily Mail ""Riveting book ... Pearson cleverly entices the reader into a whodunnit." --"Independent on Sunday" "From the Paperback edition."

From the Publisher:

Britain’s foremost writer on crime turns to the disappearance of Lord Lucan

About this edition

• Publisher: Century
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1844132056
• ISBN 13: 9781844132058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240