Project Gutenberg 2015-11-20 Public domain in the USA. 60 Frith, Walter The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of To-day The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of Today Produced by Cindy Beyer, Shaun Pinder and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of To-day" by Walter Frith is a fictional novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around Vincent Blacker, a Lieutenant in the H.M. Militia, who devises an outrageous plan to raid the gambling tables at the iconic Monte Carlo casino. Motivated by love, particularly his desire to win back his wife’s family estate for her, Blacker enlists the help of various colorful characters while grappling with the moral implications of their reckless scheme. At the start of the novel, Vincent Blacker shares the inception of his bold idea while lounging in bed one morning. He explains the motivations behind the planned heist, including the substantial amount of money believed to be present at Monte Carlo and his desire to see the wealth redistributed to charitable causes. As he introduces his past with Lucy Thatcher, his love interest, and their intertwined fates, he sets the stage for the upcoming adventure with hints of camaraderie and mischief. The beginning establishes a lighthearted, yet daring tone as Blacker prepares to assemble his crew and embark on what could be a disastrous yet thrilling escapade. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Adventure stories Robbery -- Fiction Casinos -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 420356 420370 2024-09-21T07:47:57.761448 2023-09-22T05:15:03.334886 text/html text/html 418686 2015-11-20T09:16:50 text/html; charset=utf-8 217542 2015-11-20T09:16:50 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 266785 2024-09-21T07:48:04.469390 application/epub+zip 266598 2024-09-21T07:47:58.758464 application/epub+zip 249537 2024-09-21T07:47:58.280446 application/epub+zip 364794 2024-09-21T07:48:08.873388 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 327783 2024-09-21T07:48:04.009431 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 310985 2022-09-22T20:33:20.187082 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 366416 366214 2024-09-21T07:47:56.691454 2023-09-22T05:15:02.529864 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 366605 2015-11-20T09:16:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 143252 2015-11-20T09:16:50 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18194 2024-09-21T07:48:09.009367 application/rdf+xml 13548 2024-09-21T07:47:58.371428 image/jpeg 2331 2024-09-21T07:47:58.324448 image/jpeg 218678 2024-09-21T07:47:57.800453 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog