Anne Fletcher is an historian and a tour guide. She is also the great-great-great niece of Joseph Hobson Jagger and in this true-life detective story she uncovers how he was able to win a fortune and what happened to his millions.
Amongst the men ‘who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’, Jagger is unique. He is the only one known to have devised an infallible and completely legal system to defeat the odds at roulette and win a fortune. But he was not what might be expected. He wasn’t a gentleman or an aristocrat, he wasn’t a professional gambler, he was a Yorkshire textile worker who had laboured in the Victorian mills of Bradford since childhood.
This talk is part of the Elmbridge LitFest 2026 programme.