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The insidious disease which poisoned Francis Vollmer’s life was insanity – the insanity of snobbery. A respected American banker, his upright life in New York was a shadow of reality compared to the glorious destiny that awaited him when his unknown parents revealed their identity.
Convinced that, if not actually royal, they must at least be members of the British peerage, he prepared for the moment when he would join that noble society. His life in America becomes a dream, forgotten when he assumes a new identity, and fantasy becomes reality as he sports among the real aristocracy of Paris, London and Geneva. His delusion is pathetic, menacing and violent; yet often brilliantly funny.’
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