Mullhulland Cobwright. Self published.  2024.  PB (thin card covers) 150 x 228mm. 183 pages, illustrated throughout with many b&w photographs   ISBN 9798332971945.

Originally about one cinema and an associated token, this book also studies in some detail the early cinema in London, and the problems caused by the Great War. It is a factual book, that reads in places like an outrageous work of fiction and becomes a forensic analysis of a family who got away with chicanery for nearly 100 years.
A completely redrafted version of the History of the criminality of the Hermann family in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, and the people associated with them. A convoluted tale of business failures; insurance fraud; a tragic fire - possible arson, even murder; a second suspicious fire; a classic embezzler, and plenty of repeated intrigue, lies and deception, involving the Hermann's - a family of very dodgy businessmen. An early and repeated use of the Long Firm Fraud explored.