Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World’s Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud
$17.95 Add to cartFaster, Higher, Farther chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals those at Enron and Lehman Brothers–one that will cost Volkswagen more than $22 billion in fines and settlements. Through meticulo
- Author: Ewing, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355918
- Language: English
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Scams and Cons: A True Crime Collection: Manipulative Masterminds, Serial Swindlers, and Crafty Con Artists (Including Anna Sorokin, Elizabeth Holmes,
$15.95 Read moreTake a deep dive into the manipulative, messy world of con artists, embezzlers, fraudsters, swindlers, and grifters in this collection of true crime stories about scams and cons.
From mystifying cons- Author: Salters, Madison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1646044622
- Language: English
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Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
$16.99 Add to cartBy the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most … [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752510
- Language: English
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Above the Ground
$32.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1960332260
- Language: English
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Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
$20.99 Add to cartPrevious books and films have emphasized the supposed glamour of America’s most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real story is completely different–and far more … [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557075
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$26.95 Read more“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 un… [more below]- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1637740425
- Language: English
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
$24.99 Read moreThe explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, “the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked.” (Kirkus)
Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassin- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0465031803
- Language: English
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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
$18.99 Add to cartThe “unputdownable” (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you’ve never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an is… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0316463604
- Language: English
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The Book of Criminal Minds: Forgeries, Robberies, Heists, Crimes of Passion, Murders, Money Laundering, Con Artistry, and More
$16.98 Add to cartA perfect gift for the true crime buff in your life, this book contains more than 300 absorbing stories about true crime.
- Includes stories both familiar and obscure, some macabre, some amusing, some st
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: May 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1645586340
- Language: English
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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 Read moreLong-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
