![]() ![]() Chekhov's Gunman: Rosalie Metcalfe is mentioned throughout the story, then turns out to be "Anne", James's girlfriend.Caper Rationalization: The protagonists are trying to get even with the fraudster who conned them.Was adapted into a mini-series in 1990, and received an Interactive Fiction adaptation in the late eighties. Without any faith in the law or the police, the protagonists decide to get even by conning their money, million dollars in total, back out of the fraudster- "not a penny more, not a penny less." Each of the four is to come up with a plan, based on their personal area of expertise. But soon it turns out that the supposed company was a fraud, perpetrated by the conman Harvey Metcalfe, and the protagonists find themselves utterly bankrupt. ![]() A 1976 novel which was the debut of the British writer Jeffrey Archer.įour upper-class men in the UK buy the stocks of a new, promising company, Prospecta Oil. ![]()
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