Inventing Loreta Velasquez : Confederate soldier impersonator, media celebrity, and con artist / by Davis, William C., 1946-

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How convicts and con artists receive new federal contracts : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, February 26, 2009.

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Flim flam : Canada's greatest frauds, scams, and con artists / by Bourrie, Mark, 1957-

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Ballyhoo! : the roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented professional wrestling / by Langmead, Jon, 1975-

“…Roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented professional wrestling…”
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Net crimes & misdemeanors : outmaneuvering web spammers, stalkers, and con artists / by Hitchcock, Jayne A.

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The Ponzi scheme puzzle : a history and analysis of con artists and victims / by Frankel, Tamar

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Con artists at work -- Stories of Ponzi schemers -- Charles Ponzi -- Bernard Madoff -- Gregory Bell -- The basic design -- Selling the stories -- Con artists' behavior seems a "normal usual behavior" -- A profile of the con artists and their victims -- How does the public view the con artists and the victims?…”
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The Penguin book of gaslight crime : con artists, burglars, rogues, and scoundrels from the time of Sherlock Holmes /

Animal Einsteins.

“…Con artists…”
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Frauds, scams, and COVID-19 : how con artists have targeted older Americans during the pandemic : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, first session, Washington, DC, September 23, 2021.

“…How con artists have targeted older Americans during the pandemic…”
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Frauds, scams, and COVID-19 : how con artists have targeted older Americans during the pandemic : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, first session, Washington, DC, September 23, 2021.

“…How con artists have targeted older Americans during the pandemic…”
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Discworld and philosophy : reality is not what it seems /

Table of Contents: “…Why would you put a con artist in charge of the money? /…”
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The almost truth / by Cook, Eileen

Representing realists in Victorian literature and criticism / by Brown, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Pre-Raphaelitism as realism -- Realistic poetry -- Realist propaganda -- Realism and the religion of doubt -- Realist con artists -- Coda.…”

Mad or bad? : the exploits of Amy Bock, 1859-1943 / by Coleman, Jenny

Table of Contents: “…Telling tales : the con artist and the biographer -- Convicts, criminals and artists : 'it is in my blood' -- Inherited 'peculiarities' from her mother -- 'So I beg of you to excuse all the errors this time' -- A perfect mania for what she calls 'shopping' -- There was a great deal of method in her madness -- Unique in colonial criminology -- The case of the female bridegroom -- A startling denouement -- Declared an habitual criminal -- Mad or bad?…”
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The tragedy of Arthur : a novel / by Phillips, Arthur, 1969-

The essence of film noir : the style and themes of cinema's dark genre / by Royer, Diana, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Lit from behind : the genesis and continuity of film noir -- All the guys with eye patches : hard bitten film noir -- Commies, Nazis and fascists : politics in film noir -- "Something further may follow ..." : con artists and scams in film noir -- Double crosses : religious delusion in film noir -- Highways, by-ways and dislocations : the self in neo-noir.…”

The novel of purpose : literature and social reform in the Anglo-American world / by Claybaugh, Amanda

Table of Contents: “…Social reform and the new transatlanticism -- The novel of purpose and Anglo-American realism -- Charles Dickens : a reformer abroad and at home -- Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Stoddard : temperance pledges, marriage vows -- George Eliot and Henry James : exemplary women and typical Americans -- Mark Twain : reformers and other con artists -- Thomas Hardy : new women, old purposes.…”

The novel of purpose : literature and social reform in the Anglo-American world / by Claybaugh, Amanda

Table of Contents: “…Social reform and the new transatlanticism -- The novel of purpose and Anglo-American realism -- Charles Dickens : a reformer abroad and at home -- Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Stoddard : temperance pledges, marriage vows -- George Eliot and Henry James : exemplary women and typical Americans -- Mark Twain : reformers and other con artists -- Thomas Hardy : new women, old purposes.…”
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The ghost army of World War II : how one top-secret unit deceived the enemy with inflatable tanks, sound effects, and other audacious fakery / by Beyer, Rick, 1956-, Sayles, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…DeMille warriors -- My con artists -- The art boys -- Men of wile -- Journey into the unknown -- When first we practice to deceive -- Special effects -- "Adolph, you son of a bitch" -- A great town -- One bad spot in my line -- They even had art supplies -- All their heavy hitters -- The coldest winter in forty years -- One last grand deception -- A toast to freedom -- Epilogue. …”

Corpse talk : groundbreaking women / by Murphy, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Hatshepsut, pharaoh -- Hypatia, mathematician & philosopher -- Irene of Athens, Empress of Byzantium -- Khutulun, wrestling princess -- Joan of Arc, saint -- Elizabeth I, Queen of England -- Julie D'Aubigny, swashbuckler -- Granny Nanny, resistance fighter -- Jane Austen, novelist -- Ching Shih, pirate queen -- Princess Carabod, con artist -- Harriet Tubman, abolitionist -- Emily Davison, suffragette -- Nellie Bly, journalist -- Amy Johnson, aviator -- Anne Frank, diarist -- Josephine Baker, entertainer.…”