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Kings of Stings

Kings of Stings

The Greatest Swindles from Down Under

by James Morton and Susanna Lobez
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/03/2011

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James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists.

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.
ISBN:
9780522858594
9780522858594
Category:
True crime
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-03-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
233x158x34mm
Weight:
0.59kg
James Morton

James Morton rose to fame in 2012 when he reached the final of the Great British Bake-Off. Since then he has become a columnist for the Sunday Mail, founded his own popular baking blog, written for the Good Pub Guide, amassed a huge social media following and written several best-selling food & drink books. In addition to baking and writing he also loves brewing his own beer and has won several national home brewing awards.

Susanna Lobez

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). She has written feature articles for The Age and columns for the Sunday Herald Sun.

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