Audiobook32 minutes
The Great Bank Forgery: The Story of Macdonnell and the Bidwells
Written by Sir Basil Thomson
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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In March 1873 Great Britain was rocked by the forgery case of the century, perpetrated against no less than the Bank of England. Four criminal brains took on the entire financial system...and would have got away with it, too, had it not been for one tiny detail.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting but it felt incomplete and without substance. If it could have gone into more detail perhaps about the lives of the criminals.