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Title:
The magnificent scoundrels : a rollicking gang of chiselers, hoaxers, frauds and quacks selected from Grand deception & the Double dealers / edited by Alexander Klein.
Publisher:
Ballantine Books,
Copyright Date:
1960
Description:
160 pages ; 18 cm
Subject:
Swindlers and swindling--Case studies.
Impostors and imposture--Case studies.
Impostors and imposture.
Swindlers and swindling.
Case studies.
Other Authors:
Hevelin, Rusty, former owner. IaU http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015056446
Klein, Alexander, 1918- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86137884
Notes:
"427 K"--Cover.
Contents:
The fabulous boom of Bayano / W.A. Swanberg -- The respected Madam of Oxford / Jacob Fisher -- Outer Baldonia vs. Soviet Russia / William Bancroft Mellor -- A master con man reveals some tricks / Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil, with W.T. Brannon -- Operation U.S. Mint / William S. Fairfield -- 30 years a fake doctor / Peter Wyden -- Novarro the magnificent / George Herald -- The story that was too good to be true / Douglas Collins -- The invisible accomplice / E.H. Jones -- The boy who wrote a play by Shakespeare / William Henry Ireland -- The great bank bilker / Charles Lanius -- Phantom fame / Harry Reichenbach, with David Freedman -- The master maker of the queer / Archie McFedries -- The next Noel Coward / Joseph McCarthy -- Bill Fallon / Avery Hall -- The many lives of Sally Beauchamp / Morton Prince -- The rocket smashers / Richard Sharpe.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)18475144
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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