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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
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Mark Seal · 323 pages
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious impostor, Christian Gerhartsreiter, and his "talented Mr. Ripley" story as Clark Rockefeller. The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Chr
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception
Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. · 304 pages
Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir By The Other Son
Kent Walker, Mark Schone · 512 pages
In 1988 a troubled young man and his flamboyant mother were arrested for murdering a wealthy widow in her New York City mansion. Suddenly, America was transfixed by a pair of real-life film noir characters. The media couldn't get enough of the twisted relationship between Sante Kimes and her twenty-three-year-old son Kenny. But the most chilling story of all was never told — until now. Kent Walker
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
Emmanuel Carrere · 191 pages
'On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claud Roman was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting ... ' With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can g
Bringing Down The House
Ben Mezrich · 272 pages
Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Michael Finkel · 336 pages
In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo · 339 pages
A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries—many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a g
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding · 221 pages
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
Dean Jobb · 336 pages
"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. The frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smoot
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
Tanya Thompson · 288 pages
The true story of a teenage con artist. It's the tale of a runaway that assumed the title of countess and then went on to fool the FBI, DEA, and Interpol, as well as a number of other celebrities and institutions, with an elaborate tale of world intrigue.
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
Guy Lawson · 368 pages
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
David W. Maurer · 320 pages
Mr. Nice
Howard Marks · 466 pages
THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealingMarks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford and soon he was moving much
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak · 413 pages
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies -- and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But for Kevin, hacking wasn't
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
Ben Macintyre · 320 pages
The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. Worth learned early that the best way to succeed was to steal. And steal he did. Following a strict code of honor, Worth won the respect of Victorian society. He also aroused its fear by becoming a chilling phantom, mingling undetected with the upper classes, whose valuables he brazenly stole. His most celebrat
He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest For Justice
Jeanine Pirro · 330 pages
"Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst"--
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Pope Brock · 330 pages
In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley--America's most brazen young con man--arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers.It was all nonsense, of course, but thousands of paying customers quickly tu
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep · 314 pages
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
Edna Buchanan · 388 pages
This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald."
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · 304 pages
Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
Jeff Ashton · 324 pages
The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe · 288 pages
A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger · 288 pages
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the