
Roger Cook's Greatest Conmen
True Stories of the World's Most Outrageous Scams
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Published on 10. May 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-84454-958-0 (ISBN)
Description
For more than 500 years con artists have been parting the greedy, gullible, unwary or soft-hearted from their money. From the very first recorded con - the Elizabethan-era 'Spanish Prisoner Scam' - to today's hi-tech online swindles, grifters have become ever-more inventive in their scope, scale and ambition. Their stories are remarkable - from the tale of Gregor MacGregor, the man who invented a fictional South American country, raised international loans on behalf of its 'government' and sold much of its (non-existent) land to would-be settlers in the 1820s, to Peter Foster, the king of bogus slimming 'cures' and friend of Page 3 models and a certain Prime Minister's wife.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84454-958-0 (9781844549580)
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Persons
Roger Cook has worked asa television investigator for more than 30 years. Tim Tate is a television producer."