Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
$18.99 Add to cartParoled felon. Rich doctor’s wife. Famous clairvoyant. Cassie Chadwick, one of history’s most successful con artists, was a master of reinvention. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, she swept from town to… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769825
- Language: English
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The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit
$32.00 Add to cartAn astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . .
Thought to be halluci- Author: Rail, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891543
- Language: English
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Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
$28.00 Add to cart“Laci Mosley is a hilarious and wise rule breaker and Scam Goddess reminds you there are many ways to ‘live your dream.'” –Amy Poehler
A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, ho- Author: Mosley, Laci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0762484659
- Language: English
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The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
$29.99 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST‘S BEST BOOKS OF 2021
In this compelling story of lies, greed and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal
- Author: Clark, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062996215
- Language: English
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a “wild, only-in-America story” of pol… [more below]- Author: Levin, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316513288
- Language: English
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Forgotten Murders from Alaska’s Capital
$16.95 Add to cartFormer Alaska newspaper reporter Betsy Longenbaugh brings to life 10 stories of murder that occurred between 1902 and 1959. Learn about Alaska’s first serial killer, a Polish Jewish prostitute who met… [more below]
- Author: Longenbaugh, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1942078889
- Language: English
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The St. Elizabeth Hospital Fire in Iowa
$24.99 Read moreOne of the Largest Tragedies in Iowa History. On January 7, 1950, a fire erupted at St. Elizabeth’s Mental Health Facility for women. The disaster garnered state-wide and national attention as the sec… [more below]
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Grimes, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155578
- Language: English
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The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece
$18.99 Add to cart“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to o
- Author: Weinman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0062661930
- Language: English
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Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times expos? of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, reve… [more below]
- Author: Buettner, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593949250
- Language: English
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Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
$30.00 Add to cartIn 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact–a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines fro
- Author: Mazza, Roberta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1503632504
- Language: English
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.
On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0316224510
- Language: English
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
$15.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn–then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage–set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hu… [more below]
- Author: Kirn, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490222
- Language: English
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The Man Who Hacked the World: A Ghostwriter’s Descent Into Madness with John McAfee
$39.99 Add to cartA rare inside look at the life and death of the eccentric and wildly controversial creator of the first anti-virus software brought to market-a man haunted by his past while enthralled by his own “leg
- Author: Foster, Alex Cody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1684429226
- Language: English
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The Tarboro Three: Rape, Race, and Secrecy
$18.00 Add to cartOn an August evening in the summer of 1973 in Tarboro, North Carolina a young woman walking alone was offered a ride by three young men. All of their lives were changed dramatically as the ensuing eve
- Author: Lampkin, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1732932808
- Language: English
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American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders
$64.95 Add to cartAmerica has spawned hundreds of cults. Charismatic leaders periodically burst into the news for the most awful of reasons. We are awash with stories of brainwashed members’ struggles to leave. Meet th… [more below]
- Series: Dark Minds True Crimes
- Author: Willis, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598257
- Language: English
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
$21.99 Add to cartArt scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good rea
- Author: Amore, Anthony M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1250108608
- Language: English
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
$16.99 Add to cartIt was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hun… [more below]
- Author: Jobb, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1616205350
- Language: English
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Practice to Deceive
$19.99 Add to cartThis New York Times bestseller–from “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) and the author of The Stranger Beside Me–is a shocking tale of greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an isolated … [more below]
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1982137959
- Language: English
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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
$19.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times Bestseller
A bestselling book that inspired the nation: “We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know:- Author: Berry, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108204
- Language: English
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Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power
$32.00 Read moreThe stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity–by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365672
- Language: English
