Kings of stings : the greatest swindles from Down Under /

Kings of stings : the greatest swindles from Down Under /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Morton, James, 1938-
Imprint:Carlton, Vic. : Victory Books, Melbourne University Pub., 2011.
Description:1 online resource (408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits
Language:English
Subject:
Swindlers and swindling -- Australia.
Quacks and quackery -- Australia.
Fraud -- Australia.
Fraud.
Quacks and quackery.
Swindlers and swindling.
Australia.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11954826
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Other authors / contributors:Lobez, Susanna.
ISBN:9780522860191
0522860192
9780522858594
0522858597
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow. Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks: changing paper into banknotes, selling other people's property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money.
Other form:Print version: Morton, James, 1938- Kings of stings. Carlton, Vic. : Victory Books, Melbourne University Pub., 2011 9780522858594

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