Swindlers and swindling
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Trick Baby
$17.99 Add to cartThe author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor, and race, bestselling author Iceberg Slim brings us the story of a hustler who doesn’t just play
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13, 2011
- ISBN10: 1936399016
- Language: English
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Nancy Drew 14: The Whispering Statue
$10.99 Read moreOnce again, Nancy faces two puzzling mysteries at once The first concerns a valuable collection of rare books that Mrs. Horace Merriam commissioned anart dealer to sell–has he swindled her instead? … [more below]
- Series: Nancy Drew #14
- Author: Keene, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 1937
- ISBN10: 0448095149
- Language: English
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Fatale
$15.95 Add to cartA New York Review Books Original
Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aim e is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Manchette, Jean-Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173813
- 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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Extraordinary Popular Delusions
$7.95 Read moreThis classic survey of crowd psychology offers an illuminating and entertaining look at three grand-scale swindles. Originally published in England in 1841, its remarkable tales of human folly reveal … [more below]
- Author: MacKay, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 97
- Publish Date: August 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432238
- Language: English
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Let Them Eat Crypto: The Blockchain Scam That’s Ruining the World
$15.99 Read more‘An essential resource. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency, but the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social problem’ David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot B
- Author: Howson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745348211
- Language: English
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Unleashed (Swindle #7): Volume 7
$8.99 Add to cartUNLEASHED: freed from restraint, running wild, not being held back by anyone or anything . . . Don’t miss the latest Swindle mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman.
Luthor, a f… [more below]
- Series: Swindle #7
- Author: Korman, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0545709377
- Language: English
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In Front of God and Everybody: Confessions of April Grace
$9.99 Add to cartIf God wanted April Grace to be kind to her neighbors, He should have made them nicer!
Growing up in the country is never easy, but it sure is funny–especially if you happen to have a sister obsessed
- Series: Confessions of April Grace
- Author: McCrite, Kd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1400317223
- Language: English
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Charmers & Con Artists: And Their Flip Side
$15.00 Add to cartThis is a psychological study of charmers, con artists, and their hidden alter-ego, the abusers — how they got that way, various profile examples, and how to recover from their artistry of killing yo… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1632325950
- Language: English
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Curses
$18.99 Read more“Curses is the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ retelling I’ve been waiting for.” –Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“A unique and twisty magical romp!” –Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestse- Author: McBride, Lish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1984815598
- Language: English
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The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican.
With a round, open face and a penchant for tall- Author: Hammer, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049381
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
$20.99 Add to cartMore than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of “tulipom… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: MacKay, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928917
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
$12.95 Add to cartMale, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade’ of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid?e is the confidence man’? The central motif of Melville’s last and most … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554854
- Language: English
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The Lies I Tell
$27.99 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
“A mindbender.” –Jessica Knoll
“Riveting…a winner.” –Laura Dave
“A knockout.” –Mary Kubica
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight comes a
- Author: Clark, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1728247594
- Language: English
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
$11.99 Read moreThe thrilling novel that launched #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s career, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.
THE SWINDLE IS INGENIOUS The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physic- Author: Archer, Jeffrey
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250756022
- 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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Fiends on the Other Side-Disney Chills, Book Two
$6.99 Add to cart“I know many things. Including the fact that you have something that belongs to me . . . .“
Twelve-year-old Jamal has always lived in his twin brother, Malik’s, shadow. All he wants in the world is to … [more below]- Series: Disney Chills #2
- Author: Strange, Vera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1368048366
- Language: English
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Nocturno / Nightwork
$19.95 Read moreEl nuevo best seller de suspense rom?ntico de una autora legendaria. Una novela adictiva llena de misterio, peligro y un amor por el que merece la pena jugarse el cuello.
Harry Booth es un ladr?n. Lle- Author: Roberts, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 849129743X
- Language: Spanish
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
$30.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing–and one of the most decorated journalists of our time–twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and i… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0385548516
- Language: English
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Razor Girl
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me.
“Carl … [more below]- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0345804902
- Language: English
