Author: Ketchiva, Paul de
Title: Confessions of a Croupier. The Inside Story of the Gambling Game from the Authoritative Angle of the "Bank"...
Description: London, Hurst & Blackett, n.d.(ca. 1930s). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, 255,(7) pp, A portion of clipped dustwrapper blurb glued to front fixed flyleaf. Two rubberstamps to front flyleaf.. Frontispiece,7pp photoplates. Some rubbing, several small spots to covers, Good. ¶ Full title concludes: "...Revealed for the First Time". Contents: Secrets of Monte Carlo; Famous & Infamous Gamblers I Have Known; Royalty Around the Roulette Wheel; Paris Gambling Hells; "Breaking the Bank"; Alcohol - The Love of Women - Crime!; 'Neath the Artificial Lights; Hell with the Lid Off; Beautiful Gamblers I Have Known; The Woman with the Eyes of a Snake; Cannes the Crimson; Royal Princes Round the Green Cloth; Monte Carlo's "Bargain Basement"; Strange "Pledges" of Ruined Gamblers; Breaking the Bank at Monte Carlo; Queens I Have Seen Gamble; Some Infamous Gamblers;Fights I Have Seen in Continental Gambling "Hells"; Secret History of Monte Carlo.

Keywords: Casino Gambling, Monte Carlo, Roulette, Monaco, Gamblers, Croupiers, Casinos, ,