Gay Canadian Rogues
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| By Frank Rasky | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #450 |
| Release Month | 1959 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | Come Back, My Dream (Nurse In Training) |
| Followed by | Air Ambulance |
- Author: Frank Rasky
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #450
- Year: 1959
Book Description
Here is a rogues' gallery of Canadian scallawags, nimble in the art of embezzling, swindling, spying and gold-digging, presented by Frank Rasky, Editor of "Liberty", Canada's largest monthly national magazine. Among these rogues, who usually perform with charm and a prankish imagination, are:
- Count Alexander Navarro Fernandez, the royal impostor from Montreal, who bilked hundreds of business men and was interned by the Mounties in New Brunswick as a spy; the rascal is still masquerading under his forty-seven different noms de crime, especially as the illegitimate son of King Alfonso of Spain.
- A nervy Torontonian, Ralph M. Wilby, who applied for a job as an accountant at "Libery" Magazine, but neglected to mention that he'd embezzled $400,000 from his former employers, and never breathed a word about his peculations to his three wives.
- Herbert James McAuliffe, the absent-minded farceur from North Bay and Windsor, Ontario, who attempted the get-rich-slow scheme of counterfeiting fifty-cent Canadian coins.
- Cassie Chadwick, the gold-digging Lorelei Lee of Eastwood, Ontario, who hoaxed her elegant way into a loot of over a million dollars by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie.
- The whiskey-swigging atom bomb spies who were netted thanks to the secret code clerk in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko.
- Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr., nicknamed "Ferdinand The Bull-Thrower", who bambozzled the entire Canadian Navy by masquerading as a surgeon.
- And Edward ("Brother-Twelve") Wilson, the swindling swami of British Columbia, who played god and lover to his female disciples, then absconded with their gold offerings secreted in strawberry jam jars.
