Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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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
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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 Add to cartMapping 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
$16.95 Read moreA 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 Read moreSix 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
