Royal Baccarat Scandal - in Fiction

In Fiction

• "The Tranby Croft card scandal" is one of the three stories in Flashman and the Tiger.
• A dramatized account, The Royal Baccarat Scandal by Royce Ryton, was first produced at the Chichester Festival Theatre, in 1988. It was also a 2-hour radio play on BBC Radio 4 in December 1991.
• The scandal is mentioned in Ian Fleming's third James Bond novel Moonraker. Bond's assignment is to catch Sir Hugo Drax while cheating at bridge and M compares the potential publicity of the event to that of the Tranby Croft affair.
• It also features in the 11th James Bond novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963).
• The scandal is mentioned in the novel Bedford Square by Anne Perry.
• Mention is made of the Tranby Croft trial in E. F. Benson's "The Praisers of Past Time", chapter XII of "The Freaks of Mayfair", first published in Great Britain by T. N. Foulis in 1916.
• The case is referred to during a game of planchette in Anthony Powell's The Acceptance World, part of A Dance to the Music of Time.
• In Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, Margot says in a note to Paul: I was cut by Lady Circumference, my dear, at Newmarket, a real point-blank Tranby Croft cut..
• The novel and movie Action for Slander use many elements of the Tranby Croft scandal.