Publisher's Synopsis
This is a collection of anecdotes about men and women who have lost millions through generosity, greed, fraud, failure, blindness and sheer determination.;"Champagne" Norah Docker is but one, spending her way through three husbands, three fortunes, yachts, jewels, furs and a gold-plated Daimler. Then there are the most eccentric Schlumpf brothers whose 60 million collection of antique automobiles included 123 vintage Bugattis which became the object of a government plot.;The author also wrote " The Risk Takers".
