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Author Morton, James, 1938-

Title Kings of stings : the greatest swindles from Down Under / James Morton and Susanna Lobez
Published Carlton, Vic. : Victory Books, 2011
Carlton, Victoria : Victory Books, 2011
©2011

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Description 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portfolios, facsimiles ; 24 cm
regular print
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
Analysis Confidence game
Crime & criminology (Australia)
Forgery
Social history (Australia)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-393) and index
Subject Fraud -- Australia.
Quacks and quackery -- Australia.
Swindlers and swindling -- Australia.
Author Lobez, Susanna.
ISBN 9780522858594 (paperback)