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Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Trickstersroyal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickeryhis changing names and telling of tales. An impudent young playboy and a confessed confidence trickster, he finances his far-flung hedonism through fraud and false pretenses. After repeated spells in prison, Lucas transforms himself into a confessing ex-crook, turning his inside knowledge of the underworld into a lucrative career as freelance journalist and crime expert. But then he's found out againexposed and disgraced for faking an exclusive about a murder case. So he reinvents himself, taking a new name and embarking on a prolific, if short-lived, career as a royal biographer and publisher. Chased around the world by detectives and journalists after yet another sensational scandal, the gentleman crook dies as spectacularly as he liveda washed-up alcoholic, asphyx

Prince of Tricksters

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 26 July 2016
      ISBN-13 9780226133157
      978-0226133157
      ISBN-10 022613315X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Trickstersroyal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickeryhis changing names and telling of tales. An impudent young playboy and a confessed confidence trickster, he finances his far-flung hedonism through fraud and false pretenses. After repeated spells in prison, Lucas transforms himself into a confessing ex-crook, turning his inside knowledge of the underworld into a lucrative career as freelance journalist and crime expert. But then he's found out againexposed and disgraced for faking an exclusive about a murder case. So he reinvents himself, taking a new name and embarking on a prolific, if short-lived, career as a royal biographer and publisher. Chased around the world by detectives and journalists after yet another sensational scandal, the gentleman crook dies as spectacularly as he liveda washed-up alcoholic, asphyx

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