An African Millionaire

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An African Millionaire (1897) is a witty crime-comedy novel by Grant Allen, told in twelve linked episodes by Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth, the brother-in-law and private secretary of Sir Charles Vandrift, a South African mining millionaire and famous financier. Though no common sharper can take in Charles Vandrift, one rogue repeatedly does — Colonel Clay, the master of disguise, who with the White Heather League fleeces the millionaire time and again through audacious and ever-changing swindles, from the Mexican Seer onward. Each episode shows Sir Charles growing richer in suspicion and poorer in purse, until the reader is at last invited to look behind the Colonel's many disguises and discover the riddle of the African millionaire.