Monsieur X : the incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history / Jamie Reid.
Monsieur X : the incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history / Jamie Reid.
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Publisher
London, UK : Bloomsbury Sport, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
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G 2018/3453
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English
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xi, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
London, UK : Bloomsbury Sport, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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"Patrice des Moutis was a handsome, charming and well educated Frenchman with an aristocratic family, a respectable insurance business, and a warm welcome in the smartest Parisian salons. He was also a compulsive gambler and illegal bookie. Between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, des Moutis made a daring attempt to beat the French state-run bet...
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Monsieur X : the incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history / Jamie Reid.
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Includes index.
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©2018
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G 2018/3453
Record Identifier
74VKVAw4eJ6y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVAw4eJ6y
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ISBN
1472942299
9781472942289 paperback
1472942280 paperback
9781472942296
DDC
798.401092
MMS ID
991024171688402626