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Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles from Down Under
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Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles from Down Under Paperback - 2011

by James Morton; Susanna Lobez


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Do you want to...Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda's hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami? In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving 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. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.

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  • Title Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles from Down Under
  • Author James Morton; Susanna Lobez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Victory Books, Australia
  • Date 2011-06
  • ISBN 9780522858594 / 0522858597
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.163

About the author

James Morton, a former defence lawyer in England, is one of Britain's leading experts on crime, and the author of more than twenty books including his bestselling Gangland series. James Morton is also the co-author of Shotgun and Standover, an account of the Painters and Dockers' Union. Susanna Lobez is an actor-turned-barrister-turned-broadcaster. She has been an ABC specialist legal broadcaster on The Law Report (radio) and Law Matters (TV), and has written feature articles for The Age and columns for the Sunday Herald Sun. They are the co-authors of the bestselling Gangland Australia as well as Dangerous to Know, an encyclopedia of Australasian crime.
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Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Victory Books (Melbourne University Publishing Imprint) , 2011. 408pp. Unpaginated, colour and monochrome, illustrated section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped on foredge corners, else very good. Textblock unmarked. Con artists and scammers exist in all shapes and forms, but they have one thing in common - to separate a victim from their money or possessions. This book features stories of some of Australia's most notorious male and female swindlers . . . Contents include: Prelims., Introduction. 18 'stories'. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Book weight approx. 600g. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - (approx. 23cm x 15cm).
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