Kings Of Stings

James Morton, Susanna Lobez
Paperback
Added to basketCheckout →
Ships in 4-6 weeks
Other formats available
Kings Of Stings

Subjects

True crime

Published

1 March 2011

ISBN

9780522858594

Pages

336

Subjects

True crime

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

Kings Of Stings

James Morton, Susanna Lobez
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.
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.

James Morton

James Morton

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 best-selling Gangland series. He also co-authors Shotgun and Standover, an account of the Painters and Dockers' union. Together with Susannah Lobez, he has written four books including Dangerous to Know and Kings of Stings.

More

Susanna Lobez

Susanna Lobez

Susanna Lobez is an actor-turned-barrister-turned-broadcaster. She has been an ABC specialist legal presenter on The Law Report (radio) and Law Matters (TV). She has written feature articles for The Age and columns for the Sunday Herald Sun. She co-authors 11 books together with James Morton, including the bestselling Dangerous to Know and Kings of Stings.

More

Paperback
Added to basketCheckout →
Ships in 4-6 weeks
Other formats available