Swindler (disambiguation)

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A swindler is generally a charlatan, a person practicing quackery, fraud, or similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, property, or advantage by pretense.

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The Eleventh Hour is a 1922 British silent film. One of a number of adaptations of Ethel M. Dell's romance novels made around this time, the film revolves around Doris Elliott, who marries farmer Jeff Ironside, but quickly tires of farm life, and leaves him, only to realise her mistake and return just before Ironside commits suicide - hence "the eleventh hour" of the title. It is unknown whether any recording of the film survives; it may be a lost film.

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<i>The Rocks of Valpré</i> (novel) 1913 novel

The Rocks of Valpré is a 1913 novel by the British writer Ethel M. Dell. First published in the United States in 1913. It is set in the mid-nineteenth century when an officer wrongly imprisoned on Devil's Island escapes and heads to Europe to rescue the love of his life from the villain.

Keeper of the Door is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Basil Gill, Peggy Carlisle and Hamilton Stewart. It was an adaptation of a 1915 novel by Ethel M. Dell.

The Swindler is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Cecil Humphreys, Marjorie Hume and Neville Percy. It was based on a short story by Ethel M. Dell.

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<i>The Hundredth Chance</i> (novel) 1917 novel

The Hundredth Chance is a 1917 novel by the British writer Ethel M. Dell. It was one of four of Dell's novels to make the Publishers Weekly list of top ten bestselling books during the 1910s in America. In 1927 Dell adapted the novel as a play.

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