FAKERS, FORGERS & PHONEYS: FAMOUS SCAMS AND SCAMPS by Magnusson, Mangus

FAKERS, FORGERS & PHONEYS: FAMOUS SCAMS AND SCAMPS
by Magnusson, Mangus
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This collection gathers 16 case studies from the shadow world of fakes and forgerie. True tales include a mystery man known as George Psalmanazar who fooled the London literary world in 1704 with lurid accounts of cannibalism and polygamy in his native island of Formosa,; the fabricated "missing link" human skull which was discovered in a gravel pit in 1912; and how an obese cockney adventurer in Australia succeeded in passing himself off as a slim young English aristocrat who had disappeared more than 10 years earlier in 1854. More recent scams unveiled are a house painter who fooled the art world and became a national TV celebrity in 1979 and a suave London conman who inveigled a struggling artist to become involved in the greatest British art scam of the 20th century. 414 pages, indexed, paperbound, 2007.

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