Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue Book

Jabez was a businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and chamer. He was also an astonishing scoundrel - a liar, adulterer and cheat - who perpetrated the most destructive fraud of the nineteenth century. When the Liberator building society collapsed under the weight of extravagant malpractice, thousands of people were left defrauded and destitute. Jabez immediately took flight to Argentina, accompanied (scandalously) by a female ward half his age. Eventually, a determined Scotland Yard detective caught up with Jabez, and kidnapped him on a high-speed train across South America from whence he was hauled back to justice.Read More

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  • 1843541319
  • 9781843541318
  • David McKie
  • 10 February 2005
  • Atlantic Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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