Henry Carter Hull

Harlan is a worn-out grifter with a problem. Fiona is the beautiful hustler with a seemingly simple solution. In their seedy world of filthy alleys and cheap motel rooms, nothing is ever simple, but you always have to wonder, just who's conning who?

Tilda Goodnight, one of a long line of art forgers, tries to save her family by going straight, but things become complicated when she tries to steal back a painting she did years earlier and has an encounter in a closet with semi-reformed con man Davy Dempsey.

Con man Jake and his gang, Gordo, Miles, and Big Al, pull off a swindling job stealing money from a guy who turns out to be a mob accountant for crime boss, King. Then Jake and his crew attempt to pull off an even bigger scam to make up for their mistake. This time the con involves the King's enemy, the mob-connected banker Morgan Price. Two corrupt cops join Jake's team while the King appoints his henchman, Lupus to oversee the operation.

Donkey, Crow, and Rabbit join forces to prevent Fox from swindling Bear out of a jar of honey.

When a small-time scam artist teams up with a legendary con man his sexy young associate for the opportunity of a lifetime, he loses sights of rule number one: never trust another con.

"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...

After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.

A timely guide to uncovering financial fraud 2008 and 2009 will be remembered for bear markets, a global credit crunch, and some of the largest investment scams ever. But these scams are nothing new, they've been repeated throughout history, and there will certainly be more to come. But the good news is fraudsters often follow the same basic playbook. Learn the playbook, and know how to ask the right questions, and financial fraud can be easy to detect...

Offers advice on how to recognize scam artists and avoid becoming a victim of fraud. Suggests what can be done for for those who feel they have already fallen prey to a scam.

Fleur Daxeny, a beautiful, unscrupulous woman who makes her living crashing the funerals of wealthy women in order to take advantage of their newly vulnerable widowers, but her scheme falls apart when she lingers too long at the home of multimillionaire Richard Favour, and becomes entangled in the problems of his family.