Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
$28.95 Add to cartThe thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high society–and a window into the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the Swinging Sixties.
As a strin- Author: Pederson, Rena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366059
- Language: English
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The Devil Wears Rothko: Inside the Art Scandal That Rocked the World
$30.00 Read moreThe Devil Wears Rothko charts the explosive demise of Knoedler Gallery, one of New York’s oldest and most prestigious art galleries, with detailed and salacious insight into the art fraud scandal of t… [more below]
- Author: Avrich, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888454527
- Language: English
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Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World
$19.99 Add to cart“Catch Me if You Can meets Coming to America in this epic tale of one of the greatest scammers of all time.”-NPR
Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize * A New York Times Notable Book of the Ye- Author: Yeebo, Yepoka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1639735291
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America Today
$29.99 Add to cartA compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and… [more below]
- Author: Tinline, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668050498
- Language: English
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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
$17.99 Add to cartThe highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.
Years before the
- Author: Matney, Mandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063269228
- Language: English
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
$30.00 Add to cartAn investigation of the New Age movement in America that aims to understand its appeal to women and the self-proclaimed prophetesses, like Love Has Won’s Amy Carlson, who’ve created kingdoms for thems… [more below]
- Author: Sottile, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1538742608
- Language: English
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
$30.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me.
“I devoured this chilling- Author: Dunlop, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250284279
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves
$28.00 Add to cartThese are the 14 red flags to identify the scammer in your life before they con you–from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con.
“Johnathan Walton has written a master… [more below]- Author: Walton, Johnathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593797167
- Language: English
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: A Ponzi Scheme Victim’s Story
$15.99 Add to cartObtain an inside look at a real-life Ponzi scheme from the vantage point of one of its victims.
We’ve all heard of Ponzi schemes, but what happens when you’re the victim of one?
After a 30-year career w
- Author: Dougherty, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822963870
- Language: English
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False Claims: One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Pratta, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63371103
- Language: English
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
$21.00 Add to cartThe true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of ’60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over- Author: Koerner, Brendan I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0307886115
- Language: English
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller!
The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring Jo- Author: Stallworth, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1250299055
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fooled the World: The True Story of Fake Wellness Guru Belle Gibson
$19.95 Add to cartA jaw-dropping story of extraordinary deceit that left many victims in its wake and travelled around the world.
Entrepreneur. Inspiration. Guru. Belle Gibson shot to fame after she convinced the world
- Author: Donelly, Beau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1947534068
- Language: English
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Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
$32.00 Add to cart“[A] revelatory study of how power, religion, and fame intersect.”
—Publishers Weekly [starred review]
The dramatic rise, disappearance, and near-fall of Aimee Semple McPherson, America’s most famous- Author: Hoffman, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 374601712
- Language: English
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Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir
$27.00 Read moreAn “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates
“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and cr- Author: Levin, Daniel Barban
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593138856
- Language: English
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature of fraud i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060825421
- Language: English
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Letting In Air and Light
$17.95 Add to cartFrom a double shotgun house in New Orleans comes a true story larger than life. Teresa Tumminello Brader, niece of the convicted art forger William Toye, retells her family’s experience as she discove… [more below]
- Author: Brader, Teresa Tumminello
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1960215035
- Language: English
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Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
$29.99 Add to cartMystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join the… [more below]
- Author: Cutler, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982133546
- Language: English
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American Black Widow: The Shocking True Story of a Preacher’s Wife Turned Killer
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister’s wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead.
Colorado, 197- Author: Olsen, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1538767864
- Language: English
