Charles Deville Wells, better known as ‘The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’, was the son of Charles Jeremiah Wells – a relatively unknown yet highly-acclaimed…
People often ask how I got the idea for this book. A few years ago I was researching some completely unrelated topic in an old newspaper from the 1920s. I…
You’ll find more info about Charles Deville Wells, The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wells_(gambler) (I was a contributor to the article. If you…
In July 1891 Charles Wells went to the casino at Monte Carlo – the only place in Europe where gambling was legally permitted at the time. He arrived at mid-day…
Most of the research for The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo took place in the summer of 2014, when I visited Paris, Marseille, Nice and Monte Carlo…
At last! The Blog is back in operation. Or to be more precise, it’s the writer who is back in operation after a very busy few months! A tight deadline…
Spent several days in France last September researching my biography of Charles Wells, (The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo). We took in several cities, including Marseille, where…