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Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion

Call Number

  • 364.163 T271 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Physical Description

xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best-- or worst. Telfer introduces us to a host of lady swindlers whose scams ranged from the outrageous to the deadly. Among them: In 1700s Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette. Cassie Chadwick got banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. In the 1970s teenager Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire NFL. And the scams continue....

Contents

  • Introduction: Charming
  • The glitterati. Jeanne de Saint-Rémy ; Cassie Chadwick ; Wang Ti
  • The seers. The spiritualists ; Fu Futtam ; Rose Marks
  • The fabulists. The Anastasias ; Roxie Ann Rice ; The tragediennes ; Bonny Lee Bakley
  • The drifters. Lauretta J. Williams ; Margaret Lydia Burton Sante Kimes
  • Conclusion: Confident.

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