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Synthetic Gentleman Tha Duke Bluffs In A Southampton Hoax
Barry Gilbert a 23 year old jobless youth enters a vacant Southampton summer home to shelter from a storm. He encounters a butler and chauffeur and pretends to be Jack Ridder. A real Jack’s letter arrives with a $100 bill. Barry pockets the money and plans to vanish, meets new allies, and becomes entangled in murder and a condemnation case while working at the Globe.
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Tha Duke
Barry Gilbert
Southampton
Willetts
Evans
Jack Ridder
Germany
Jack
Barry
Montauk
Judge Hambidge
Patricia
Mr. Ridder
The
Globe
Judge Hambridge
Tammany Hall
Peter Winslow
Winslow
Hambidge
New York
Mike Kelly
Tammany Boss
Peggy
Florida
Jay Rogers
Cocoanut Bar
Kelly's
Kelly
Pat
Marian
Judge
Ridder
Mr. Gilbert
Hollywood
John Clarke Ridder, Jr
Times Square
Sixteenth Street
Sixteenth ‘Street