So he reinvents himself, taking a new name and embarking on a prolific, if short-lived, career as a royal biographer and publisher. But then he's found out again-exposed and disgraced for faking an exclusive about a murder case. After repeated spells in prison, Lucas transforms himself into a confessing "ex-crook," turning his inside knowledge of the underworld into a lucrative career as freelance journalist and crime expert. ung playboy and a confessed confidence trickster, he finances his far-flung hedonism through fraud and false pretenses. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery-his changing names and telling of tales. Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters-royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook.
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