TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morton,James
AU  - Lobez,Susanna
TI  - Kings of stings: the greatest swindles from Down Under 
SN  - 9780522858594 (pbk.)
AV  - HV6699.A8 M67 2011
U1  - 364.1630994 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Carlton, Victoria
PB  - Victory Books
KW  - Fraud
KW  - fast
KW  - Quacks and quackery
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Australia
KW  - Confidence game
KW  - Forgery
KW  - Social history (Australia)
KW  - Crime & criminology (Australia)
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-393) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -