Harry Hodgetts

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>From 'Big Shot' to 'Swindler'. From 'palatial two-storey Kensington Park home' to 'the cold cells of Adelaide Gaol'. Racier newspapers gloated when Harry Hodgetts was convicted of fraud and false pretences in September 1945.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Hodgetts was Adelaide's leading stockbroker with 4000 clients including a governor and governor-general. He gave outstanding service to lacrosse and cricket educational institutions and the Royal Institute for the Blind but he is best remembered as the man who struck a deal to have the young Don Bradman move to Adelaide play cricket for South Australia and work part-time in his office.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>How did things go so wrong for Hodgetts? With his wealth of historical knowledge John Davis has written the complex and riveting story of this hard-working gifted social climber his fall into bankruptcy and a prison cell and the scandal that haunted Bradman's reputation.</span></p>