Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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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 Add to cartThe 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
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I Am Abigail: A Texas Woman’s Childhood Nightmare – And Her Escape From Hell as a Sex Slave/Survivor
$18.99 Add to cartONE OF THE MOST DISTURBING CASES OF SEXUAL ABUSE ON RECORD-AND THE INSPIRING TRUE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO SURVIVED TO SPEAK HER TRUTH
My name is Abigail Alvarado. When I was nine, Child Protecti
- Author: Collins, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0960086730
- Language: English
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood st
- Author: Mann, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062242199
- Language: English
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The Man Who Hacked the World: A Ghostwriter’s Descent Into Madness with John McAfee
$21.99 Add to cart*BASED ON ACCOUNTS FEATURED IN THE #1 NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY FILM RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL*
A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best True Crime
John McAfee: internet pioneer, presidential ca… [more below]
- Author: Foster, Alex Cody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429218
- Language: English
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Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties
$18.99 Add to cartIn this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the younges
- Author: Lake, Dianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062695584
- Language: English
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Becoming Clark Rockefeller: Murder, Love, Deception, and the Con Man Behind It All
$26.99 Add to cartBECOMING CLARK ROCKEFELLER: Murder, Love, Deception, and the Con Man Behind It All delves into the life of a young immigrant entangled in a multi-generational murder investigation ensnaring some of th
- Author: Girardot, Frank C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1960332570
- Language: English
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Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks: True Stories of American Corruption
$22.95 Add to cartPower, Money, Sex: The Corrupt Trifecta! This captivating book uncovers the insidious web of deceit that infiltrates every facet of our nation’s past and present. Immerse yourself in the stories of 50… [more below]
- Series: Dark Minds True Crimes
- Author: Estep, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 157859796X
- Language: English
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American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders
$22.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598001
- Language: English
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Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers
$35.99 Read moreA unique study into both the professional gamblers aboard Titanic and their individual backgrounds and fates
During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoki- Author: Behe, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1803992387
- Language: English
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Notorious Arkansas Swindler Dr. John Kizer: Medicine and Murder
$24.99 Read moreA True Story of Murderous Greed. The John R. Kizer story is a riveting tale of deception, murder and anxiety in rural Arkansas. Kizer was a doctor who used his knowledge to drive his lustful greed and… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Harris, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154962
- Language: English
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The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Science, and the Global Quest for Fossils
$21.99 Add to cartIn this 2018 New York Times Notable Book, Paige Williams “does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids” (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man’s reckless attempt to sell a dinosaur skele
- Author: Williams, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0316382515
- Language: English
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A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen–America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy
$19.95 Read moreA legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history” the case of Robert Hanssen–a Russian spy who was embedde… [more below]
- Author: Wiehl, Lis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364579
- Language: English
