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The Big Swindle
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Author : Clarence Budington Kelland
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-13
The Big Swindle written by Clarence Budington Kelland and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-13 with categories.
Two Geeks Are Better Than One! Especially When They're Twins! Kelland's Last Novel And His Most Delightful - The Classic Saturday Evening Post Serial - First Time In Book Form! Includes the first ever book publication of the last story in his Scattergood Baines series, also about swindles!The Big Swindle is Kelland's last book-and one of his best. Brimming with his trademark pixilated dialogue and zany romance, as well as his sometimes-awkward, sometimes-effervescent, always-memorable characters (The Saturday Evening Post, where the story was serialized, once told him to stop using "so many cockeyed characters" in his stories-but thankfully, Kelland ignored this advice)."Urbane entertainment!" -Kirkus ReviewsPete and Pet, the Du Chillon twins, are heirs to one of the oldest names in Europe and one of the largest fortunes in America. Two crazy kids with lots to do and even more to say, they have a habit of being newsworthy wherever they go.In Paris-where they were fined for sneaking into the senate gallery and blowing a pound of snuff into the air to restore the Duke de Penthieve's honor after an insult by one of his political enemies-they're known as Les Gemeaux.In London society-where they were royally entertained by the Queen after saving a member of the royal family from a royal embarrassment-they're called The Gemini.In West Germany-where they had borne away to freedom one of their former University professors captured by the East German branch of the NKVD-they're Die Zwillinge.And in Rome-where they had inspired the Pope to pen an encyclical liberalizing certain church practices-they answer to Due Gemelli.But at home in Cow Bay, Long Island-where they were raised-they've always been known simply as "them pesky twins."Now they are about to come into their majority and complete control of their inheritance-namely, Du Chillon Industries-but before they can explore their newfound power, they must use their signature wit and cunning to secure it. As they find themselves in the midst of a deadly plot to grab control of Du Chillon Industries (as well as every penny they own!), it becomes clear that they've been waiting for this moment their whole lives, and are more than ready to dispatch any swindlers who stand in their way.Participants in the plot include:*"Fish Eye" Norton (the twins' name for him), current president of Du Chillon Industries, an obsequious individual who believes his efforts for the company have earned him the right to control and possess it.*Lumen Bassett, the arrogant, threatening head of security for the company: either Norton's pawn or, perhaps, his puppet master.*Elmo Tailer, who has dreamed of taking over Cow Bay-and who has assumed that Pete and Pet would be easy prey, since they're half his age. It never occurred to him that instead, as twins, they might be twice as dangerous.In the middle of this muddle, Pete and Pet find themselves falling in love with:*Electra Tubbs, a local reporter as bewitching as she is enigmatic, who set Pete's head swimming-and who he suspects just might be the family's worst enemy.*Leif Ericson, a brawny, golden-haired giant who sailed across the Atlantic in a perfect replica of a Viking ship to prove Du Chillon Industries, and the family who owned it, were outright crooks. Even while she eyes him with suspicion, Pet can't help but blush in his presence.And presiding over all, stands:*Madame Du Chillon-known by the twins as Grand'mere-an iron-willed matriarch who had taught Pete and Pet everything they know...which was a great deal more than most people suspected. While heads fall all around her, she remains in possession of her own.Be prepared for swindles within swindles-and who will swindle whom? Even if you guess, you won't be able to guess how!Here in this lost classic, never before printed in book form, is a fitting capstone to the career of one of America's most popular & beloved authors."A writer of distinction." DetroitNews
The Big Swindle
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Author : Matt Henderson Finlay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971*
The Big Swindle written by Matt Henderson Finlay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971* with Christian life categories.
The Great Swindle
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Author : Virginia Cowles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10-01
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The Greatest Swindle In The World
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Author : G. Borsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
The Greatest Swindle In The World written by G. Borsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Treaty of Versailles categories.
Big Box Swindle
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Author : Stacy Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Big Box Swindle written by Stacy Mitchell and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Business & Economics categories.
A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight With a New Afterword In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement—and she shows how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively fighting back. Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers—from big boxes like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Costco, and Staples to chains like Starbucks, Olive Garden, Blockbuster, and Old Navy—and the precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples from virtually every state in the country, she unearths the extraordinary impact of these companies and the big-box mentality on everything from soaring gasoline consumption to rising poverty rates, failing family farms, and declining voting levels. Along the way, Mitchell exposes the shocking role government policy has played in the expansion of mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that communities composed of many small, locally owned businesses are healthier and more prosperous than those dominated by a few large chains. More than a critique, Big-Box Swindle provides an invigorating account of how some communities have successfully countered the spread of big boxes and rebuilt their local economies. Since 2000, more than two hundred big-box development projects have been halted by groups of ordinary citizens, and scores of towns and cities have adopted laws that favor small-scale, local business development and limit the proliferation of chains. From cutting-edge land-use policies to innovative cooperative small-business initiatives, Mitchell offers communities concrete strategies that can stave off mega-retailers and create a more prosperous and sustainable future.
The Big Swindle
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Author : Lori Larkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973*
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The Great Success Swindle
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Author : Laura Tong
language : en
Publisher: Laura Tong
Release Date : 2014-06-07
The Great Success Swindle written by Laura Tong and has been published by Laura Tong this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-07 with Self-Help categories.
Most ordinary people are being swindled out of their chance of success, doomed to permanent failure or for the vast majority, doomed to never even having a chance to try for their success, their dream. Why? Because the Road to Success is paved with... bullshit. And this book sweeps aside this bullshit in a entertaining, but no holds barred way. Because a revolution is needed, a revolution for the ordinary man and woman. Andrew Carnegie dreamed of a Monetary Revolution for the Common Man, Henry Wallace spoke of a Century of the Common Man and The Great Success Swindle proclaims a Success Revolution for the Common Man. So is this just another self-improvement book? No, It is not a self-improvement book in the traditional sense, it is a life-improvement book - most people do not need self-improvement despite many of the vast tomes dedicated to the subject, they are fine as they are, it's their life that sucks. The Great Success Swindle intends to measurably raise the rate of ordinary people reaching whatever their version of success and a great life is. The book is no fluff, no bullshit, gloves off but entertaining look at: Why so many ordinary people are doomed to failure before they start How to tell you are being swindled How to recognize swindlers How to break out of the swindle and immeasurably increase your chance of success The book also includes 21 Rules of Success for the Common Man
The Big Scam
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 198?
The Big Scam written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 198? with categories.
The Greatest Swindle
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Author : E. E. Freeman (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Greatest Swindle written by E. E. Freeman (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Swindlers and swindling categories.
The Great Swindle
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Author : Pierre Lemaitre
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-11-05
The Great Swindle written by Pierre Lemaitre and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Fiction categories.
Now a major French film Au revoir là-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille. October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more. And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Maillard and Édouard Péricourt. Back in civilian life, Albert and Édouard struggle to adjust to a society whose reverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those who survived. But the two soldiers conspire to enact an audacious form of revenge against the country that abandoned them to penury and despair, with a scheme to swindle the whole of France on an epic scale. Meanwhile, believing her brother killed in action, Édouard's sister Madeleine has married Pradelle, who is running a little scam of his own...