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Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Reveals the behind the scenes details of the big con by telling the story of J. Frank Norfleet, a Texas rancher who lost everything twice in stock market swindles in 1919, and then spent four years gathering evidence against his enemies, and includes a history of cons in the United States.
4) Faking it
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Confidence
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Fox tale
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Donkey, Crow, and Rabbit join forces to prevent Fox from swindling Bear out of a jar of honey.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beano X. Bates, a con man known as "King Con," is nearly beaten to death by a New Jersey crime boss and considers leaving his life as a grifter for good. But before he quits, he makes plans to perform one final scam that will ruin the boss and his Mob family forever.
10) The prime gig
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Larceny
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
She's alluring, conniving, and she'll do anything to claw her way out of poverty an into the corridors of wealth and power. This fast-paced, colorful adventure is based on the true story of a woman who ruthlessly used her beauty and cinning to acieve the good life. The beautiful daughter of a poor farmer, Betsy Bigley is desperate to improve her situation. She cooks up one scheme after another, hoping to gain entry into high society. From bilking...
12) Nightwork
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
14) Swindle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Marina Marks has made her living preying on the fears and insecurities of her clients to build a reputation as a psychic, but when she moves to California to start a new life, her past follows her and, after predicting a murder and becoming the sole suspect, she realizes she does have the ability to see the future and must find the killer before her life is destroyed.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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...
18) Easy money
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
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.
20) The gatecrasher
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
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.
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