Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World’s Greatest Art Forger
$29.00 Read moreThe world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters–exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art histor… [more below]
- Author: Tetro, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 306826488
- Language: English
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Above the Ground
$22.99 Add to cart“It sounds like the fictional plot of a blockbuster thriller… [W]ith his lawyer’s eye and passion to expose injustice, Lawton makes this a timeless and borderless tale… [E]ssential reading for any
- Author: Lawton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1960332252
- Language: English
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Suburban Bigamy: Six Miles Between Truth and Deceit
$29.99 Add to cartIn this thrilling memoir, Suburban Bigamy: Six Miles Between Truth and Deceit, author Michael S. Zimmerman chronicles the painful story of two families built on one lie, forever linked through betraya
- Author: Zimmerman, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985287967
- Language: English
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Burn Back Better – Lahaina: A perfect storm or a perfect crime?
$19.99 Add to cart“Freedom For Hawaii Is Freedom For Us All…”
On August 8th, 2023 beautiful historic Lahaina on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA was destroyed. Although fences were immediately erected around the burn
- Author: Pierucci, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 196257802X
- Language: English
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In a Sunburned Country
$20.00 Add to cartEvery time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime nation- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0767903862
- Language: English
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Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World
$29.95 Add to cartLong-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.
Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003, art critic Richard Dorment an- Author: Dorment, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364978
- Language: English
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Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud
$29.95 Add to cart“This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences.”–New York Times, Best Wine Book
- Author: Gibb, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520385934
- Language: English
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, St駱hane Breitwieser. – “The Art Thief, li… [more below]
- Author: Finkel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593744179
- Language: English
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Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
$29.99 Read more“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 Year- Author: Yeebo, Yepoka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1635574730
- Language: English
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Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
$28.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR “A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness.”
–RON CHERNOW, Pulitzer- Author: McKenzie, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1419766392
- Language: English
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
$28.99 Read moreThe “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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0593443810
- Language: English
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, St?hane Breitwieser. – “The Art Thief, like… [more below]
- Author: Finkel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0525657320
- Language: English
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The Book of Unsolved Mysteries
$16.98 Add to cartThe Book of Unsolved Mysteries features more than 230 fascinating true stories.
- Topics include unsolved deaths, unusual disappearances, haunted homes, unexplained phenomena, creepy creatures, ghostly
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 164558349X
- Language: English
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Gangbuster: One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
$28.00 Add to cartAs gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Van Cise, against the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption a… [more below]
- Author: Prendergast, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542128
- Language: English
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A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man
$18.00 Add to cartNashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A few months later a judge’s son is convic… [more below]
- Author: Bishop, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883450
- Language: English
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The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
$30.00 Read more“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a vigorous empathy that leaves Truman Capote in the dust. Scott Johnson’s courag
- Author: Johnson, Scott C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063036932
- Language: English
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Devil’s Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious Onecoin Cryptoqueen
$28.99 Read more*A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK FOR AUGUST 2023*
“[An] exhilarating mix of memoir and true crime. . .” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The astonishing true story of the coal miner’s daughter
- Author: McAdam, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063219182
- Language: English
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Broken Faith: Inside One of America’s Most Dangerous Cults
$17.99 Add to cart*An NPR Best Book of the Year*
A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020 “I can’t imagine a more important book.”–Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author An explosive investigation into Word of F- Author: Weiss, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 1335266755
- Language: English
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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
$17.99 Add to cartA darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bring them back to life
- Author: Greenwood, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 147673934X
- Language: English
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My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
$18.99 Add to cartONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as an heiress in New York City
- Author: Deloache Williams, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 198211410X
- Language: English
