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Kings of stings : the greatest swindles from Down Under / James Morton and Susanna Lobez.

By: Morton, James, 1938-Contributor(s): Lobez, Susanna Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Carlton, Victoria : Victory Books, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portfolios, facsimiles ; 24 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780522858594 (pbk.)Subject(s): Fraud | Quacks and quackery | Swindlers and swindling | Swindlers and swindling -- Australia | Quacks and quackery -- Australia | Fraud -- Australia | Australia | Confidence game | Forgery | Social history (Australia) | Crime & criminology (Australia)DDC classification: 364.1630994 LOC classification: HV6699.A8 | M67 2011

Contents:

1. In the Beginning -- 2. The Golden Years---Home and Away -- 3. The Old and the Short -- 4. Death, Where is Thy Sting? -- 5. The Conman as Murderer -- 6. Sex and the Single (or Married) Person -- 7. Physician, Heal Thyself -- 8. Lead, Kindly Light -- 9. A Law unto Themselves -- 10. Gongs Galore -- 11. The Unfair Sex? -- 12. White-Collar Grime -- 13. Art for the Artist's Sake -- 14. The Hand that Held the Pen -- 15. At the Track -- 16. Sports Rorts -- 17. Hoaxes -- 18. The More Things Change ...

Summary: James Morton and Susanna Lobez delve 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.

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wnor- Book	Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction	364.1630 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		AL42000158224B

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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-393) and index.

James Morton and Susanna Lobez delve 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.

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