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Blurb: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford; A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer.
The tale of a con-artist:
~to the live businessmen of America; those who have been stung and those who have yet to undergo that painful experience.
This story is sympathetically dedicated.
Synopsis: the rise and fall of two con-men. The swindlers arrive in Battlesburg and convince the town's businessmen to invest in a fictitious factory.
"The arrival of Mrs. Wallingford set upon a much higher plane her husband's already well-established reputation as a capitalist of illimitable resources. "She is a stunner," [Doctor Feldmeyer] declared, with the faintest suggestion of a smirk, "and carries herself like a queen. She wears a fur coat that cost not less than six or seven hundred dollars, and not a woman in this town has such diamonds." -from Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford Part of Chester's popular fictional series about a scheming industrialist, this satirical novel, "a cheerful account of the rise and fall of an American Business Buccaneer," relates the business crimes and misdemeanors of J. Rufus Wallingford, who inhabits a world wherein a good stomach for strong drink is worth thousands of dollars, philanthropy and profit are intimately intertwined, and preying upon widows and orphans is all in a day's work. "