Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age
$17.95 Add to cartOne fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told…until now.
It was a cool, quiet even
- Author: Kray, Fred M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987213810
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Art Crime: Thefts, Vandalism, and Forgeries
$35.00 Read moreMapping out the world’s most infamous art thefts, forgeries, and acts of vandalism, this unique and visually striking reference illuminates acts of art crime around the globe.
This book highlights sev- Author: Evans, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377124
- Language: English
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Listverse.Com’s Ultimate Book of True Crime: A Collection of Gripping Facts and Disturbing Details about Infamous Serial Killers, Notorious Cult Leade
$16.95 Add to cartBroaden your true crime horizons with this collection of obscure and mind-boggling facts and stories from the world’s most interesting trivia site!
Have you ever heard of the Phantom Burglar of Bel Ai- Series: Listverse.com Books
- Author: Frater, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1646047230
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95 Add to cart“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
$20.00 Add to cartThe “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual c… [more below]
- Author: Faux, Zeke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443837
- Language: English
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The Book of History’s Greatest Mysteries: Ancient Ruins, Vanished Worlds, and Lost Cultures – True Stories of Humanity’s Mysterious Past
$16.98 Add to cartWhat fascinating stories lurk in the dark corners of history? The Book of History’s Greatest Mysteries delves into the curious mysteries and forgotten events that most history books leave unexplored.
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: October 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1639386262
- Language: English
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
$26.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller
From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defi- Author: Toobin, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0345803159
- Language: English
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The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
$29.00 Read more175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it all
In 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thous- Author: Bartlett, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0306829169
- Language: English
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Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick
$26.00 Read moreGreed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.
‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensat
- Author: Hazelgrove, William Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1538142902
- Language: English
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries
$18.99 Add to cartSometimes the most mystifying and enticing stories are those without an ending. Mitzi Szereto’s latest collection The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries profiles the true crime … [more below]
- Series: Best New True Crime Stories
- Author: Szereto, Mitzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1642509418
- Language: English
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Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times
$24.95 Add to cartSix weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence course promising healt
- Author: Schrand, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224047
- Language: English
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Friday Night Lies: The Bishop Sycamore Story
$28.00 Read moreThe riveting true story of a sham school run by longtime con men whose scheme crashed and burned live on television
In August of 2021, a high school football team became the talk of the nation. A fea- Author: King, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1637272235
- Language: English
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Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
$16.99 Read moreA thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams–by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.
From Eliza
- Author: Telfer, Tori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0062956035
- Language: English
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Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age
$27.00 Read moreSpanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection between an audacious bank heist and the “other Space Rac… [more below]
- Author: Amelinckx, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1640094806
- Language: English
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The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written–Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom–landed at the heart of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593135687
- Language: English
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Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan
$26.95 Read moreOn a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug deale… [more below]
- Author: Link, Mardi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0472051695
- Language: English
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Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church
$30.99 Add to cartA thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei–a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect–pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars sipho… [more below]
- Author: Gore, Gareth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1668016141
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95 Add to cart“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
$18.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness.”–Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton From “one of the crypto- Author: McKenzie, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1419766406
- Language: English
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McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food Hi
$30.00 Add to cartIn this stranger than fiction story of the massive crime network that rigged the McDonald’s monopoly game for decades, unlock new, exclusive interviews and stories that couldn’t make it into the HBO d… [more below]
- Author: Hernandez, James Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1538720116
- Language: English
