The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Victorian Fraudsters Who Almost Broke the Bank of England

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Late in 1873, London was gripped by the astonishing story emerging from the highest court in the land, where four American conmen were on trial for attempting the greatest financial scam the world had ever seen. Their leader, Austin Bidwell, had hatched a plan of devilish ingenuity that, were it not...