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Download or read book Deadly Swindle written by Ian Radforth and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1890, in a remote swamp in rural southwestern Ontario, two woodsmen discovered the frozen body of a well-dressed young stranger killed by two bullets to the back of the head. Before long, police laid a murder charge on Reginald Birchall, a handsome young gentleman from London just arrived in Canada to conduct an emigration scam. Although accused of the cold-blooded murder, Birchall charmed everyone he met and delighted in the attention lavished by the press of Canada, the United States, and Britain. In Deadly Swindle, Ian Radforth tells the fascinating story of one of Canada’s most sensational murder cases and shows how the regional and international press ran with it. The book draws an intriguing picture of social life in late nineteenth-century Canada, as well as a vivid and learned portrait of the workings of the criminal justice system at this time in the country’s history. A lively narrative, Deadly Swindle is based on extensive research, notably in Victorian newspapers, and is strengthened by a thorough knowledge of press history and the legal processes of the day.
Download or read book The Mark Inside written by Amy Reading and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle—twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out to capture the five men who had conned him, allowing himself to be ensnared in the con again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Through the story of Norfleet’s ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the fascinating mechanics behind the big con—an artful performance targeted to the most vulnerable points of human nature—and invites you into the crooked history of a nation on the hustle, constantly feeding the hunger and the hope of the mark inside.
Download or read book Deadly Swindle written by Ian Radforth and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1890, in a remote swamp in rural southwestern Ontario, two woodsmen discovered the frozen body of a well-dressed young stranger killed by two bullets to the back of the head. Before long, police laid a murder charge on Reginald Birchall, a handsome, young gentleman from London just arrived in Canada to conduct an emigration scam. Although accused of the cold-blooded murder, Birchall charmed everyone he met and delighted in the attention lavished by the press of Canada, the United States, and Britain. In Deadly Swindle, Ian Radforth tells the fascinating story of one of Canada’s most sensational murder cases and shows how the regional and international press ran with it. The book draws an intriguing picture of social life in late nineteenth-century Canada, as well as a vivid and learned portrait of the workings of the criminal justice system at this time in the country’s history. A lively narrative, Deadly Swindle is based on extensive research notably in Victorian newspapers and is strengthened by a thorough knowledge of press history and the legal processes of the day.
Book Synopsis The Sayers Swindle by : Victoria Abbott
Download or read book The Sayers Swindle written by Victoria Abbott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan Kelly is delighted to make money tracking down rare and valuable mystery novels for her employer, Vera Van Alst, an avid collector and the most difficult woman in Harrison Falls, New York. But now her boss’s complete set of Dorothy Sayers is missing, and finding them may lead Jordan to a murder suitable for Sayers’s esteemed sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey… When Jordan manages to locate her boss’s missing books, they are in the possession of Randolph Adams, an elderly man in a nearby town. Offering a valuable Hemingway first edition as an incentive, Jordan thinks she’s about to seal the deal—but some of Randolph’s relatives think he should hold out for more. Then the entire family disappears—and a dead body shows up. It’s up to Jordan to collect the clues—and make sure a killer gets booked.
Book Synopsis Most Deliberate Swindle by : Mick Hamer
Download or read book Most Deliberate Swindle written by Mick Hamer and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus.This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting to replace the horse-drawn omnibus and surely had the potential to be a game changer in terms of what it would mean to Londoners and other city-dwellers who were already choking on petrol fumes.Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground.Rammed with fascinating characters and vividly capturing the Edwardian era, A Most Deliberate Swindle uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath.
Book Synopsis The Great American Swindle by : June Naugle
Download or read book The Great American Swindle written by June Naugle and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-10-03 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great American Swindle is a mind-boggling story filled with action, lust, greed, conspiracy, betrayal, blackmail, fraud, injustice, suicide, and murder; a story which crisscrosses the United States several times between 1845 and 1971; a true, fully-documented story which has significantly altered U.S. history. Hundreds of United States census records, certified documents, court transcripts, wills, deeds, personal letters, etc., prove the greatest swindle in our country’s history and its impending cover-up. Also how the swindle was accomplished, why, by whom, where the stolen billions/trillions of dollars are, and who controls them today. Names have NOT been changed to protect the guilty.
Download or read book The Swindlers written by Dudley W. Buffa and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fatal Triangle of Deception...They had everything anyone could want - money, power, fame and influence - but none of it was enough. They had to have more.Nelson St. James, one of the world's richest men, is accused of a massive fraud, stealing billions from innocent investors. Before he can be brought to justice he is murdered on his yacht. His young wife, Danielle, whose face has been on the cover of every major fashion magazine, is charged with the crime. One of the best known lawyers in the country, Andrew Morrison, agrees to defend her, but only after she reminds him of certain things she knows about him, things that had happened between them a long time before.Morrison agrees to take the case, but when she tells him what happened the night her husband died he does not believe her. So she tells him something else instead. The story keeps changing, and the more it changes, the more entangled Morrison becomes. The trial comes to a stunning conclusion, and it is only then that the real story unravels and Andrew Morrison comes face to face not just with the truth -- but with himself.Three people, brought together in a fatal triangle of murder and deception; three people who swindle each other, and then swindle themselves. The Swindlers will leave you guessing until the final page.
Book Synopsis Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 17701914 by : Jeffrey T. Zalar
Download or read book Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 17701914 written by Jeffrey T. Zalar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogates the belief that the clergy defined German Catholic reading habits, showing that readers frequently rebelled against their church's rules.
Download or read book Doin' Dirty written by Howard Swindle and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year ago, Dallas Homicide Detective Jeb Quinlin went through an alcohol rehab program that was rather more intense than usual, as he double-timed his treatment with tracking a serial killer on an AA agenda. Now, sober and taking things one day at a time on the job and cautiously but successfully involved with Madeline Meggers, a woman he met in the Jitter Joint, he's fragile but surviving. Quinlin and his partner Paul McCarren's latest case involves the gruesome murder of an investigative reporter. It seems that Richard Carlisle may have found more than he bargained for while following a lead on a hush-hush story. Tracing Carlisle's steps, the case leads Quinlin back to his roots in the legendary Texas ranching country of Comanche Gap, looking into the activities of the Colters, a prominent and wealthy family. But what could Carlisle possibly have found that was threatening enough to cost him his life? The truth promises to be more far-reaching, more dangerous, and much closer to home than Quinlin can imagine, pitting him, McCarren, and a few faces from Quinlin's past against one of the Lone Star State's most powerful families.
Book Synopsis The Billion Dollar Swindle by : Amram M. Ducovny
Download or read book The Billion Dollar Swindle written by Amram M. Ducovny and published by Fleet PressCorp. This book was released on 1969 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes quack schemes and medical gimmicks that cheat the aged and calls for governmental action to educate the elderly consumer
Book Synopsis The Big Swindle by : Clarence Budington Kelland
Download or read book The Big Swindle written by Clarence Budington Kelland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Geeks Are Better Than One! Especially When They're Twins! Kelland's Last Novel And His Most Delightful - The Classic Saturday Evening Post Serial - First Time In Book Form! Includes the first ever book publication of the last story in his Scattergood Baines series, also about swindles!The Big Swindle is Kelland's last book-and one of his best. Brimming with his trademark pixilated dialogue and zany romance, as well as his sometimes-awkward, sometimes-effervescent, always-memorable characters (The Saturday Evening Post, where the story was serialized, once told him to stop using "so many cockeyed characters" in his stories-but thankfully, Kelland ignored this advice)."Urbane entertainment!" -Kirkus ReviewsPete and Pet, the Du Chillon twins, are heirs to one of the oldest names in Europe and one of the largest fortunes in America. Two crazy kids with lots to do and even more to say, they have a habit of being newsworthy wherever they go.In Paris-where they were fined for sneaking into the senate gallery and blowing a pound of snuff into the air to restore the Duke de Penthieve's honor after an insult by one of his political enemies-they're known as Les Gemeaux.In London society-where they were royally entertained by the Queen after saving a member of the royal family from a royal embarrassment-they're called The Gemini.In West Germany-where they had borne away to freedom one of their former University professors captured by the East German branch of the NKVD-they're Die Zwillinge.And in Rome-where they had inspired the Pope to pen an encyclical liberalizing certain church practices-they answer to Due Gemelli.But at home in Cow Bay, Long Island-where they were raised-they've always been known simply as "them pesky twins."Now they are about to come into their majority and complete control of their inheritance-namely, Du Chillon Industries-but before they can explore their newfound power, they must use their signature wit and cunning to secure it. As they find themselves in the midst of a deadly plot to grab control of Du Chillon Industries (as well as every penny they own!), it becomes clear that they've been waiting for this moment their whole lives, and are more than ready to dispatch any swindlers who stand in their way.Participants in the plot include:*"Fish Eye" Norton (the twins' name for him), current president of Du Chillon Industries, an obsequious individual who believes his efforts for the company have earned him the right to control and possess it.*Lumen Bassett, the arrogant, threatening head of security for the company: either Norton's pawn or, perhaps, his puppet master.*Elmo Tailer, who has dreamed of taking over Cow Bay-and who has assumed that Pete and Pet would be easy prey, since they're half his age. It never occurred to him that instead, as twins, they might be twice as dangerous.In the middle of this muddle, Pete and Pet find themselves falling in love with:*Electra Tubbs, a local reporter as bewitching as she is enigmatic, who set Pete's head swimming-and who he suspects just might be the family's worst enemy.*Leif Ericson, a brawny, golden-haired giant who sailed across the Atlantic in a perfect replica of a Viking ship to prove Du Chillon Industries, and the family who owned it, were outright crooks. Even while she eyes him with suspicion, Pet can't help but blush in his presence.And presiding over all, stands:*Madame Du Chillon-known by the twins as Grand'mere-an iron-willed matriarch who had taught Pete and Pet everything they know...which was a great deal more than most people suspected. While heads fall all around her, she remains in possession of her own.Be prepared for swindles within swindles-and who will swindle whom? Even if you guess, you won't be able to guess how!Here in this lost classic, never before printed in book form, is a fitting capstone to the career of one of America's most popular & beloved authors."A writer of distinction." DetroitNews
Book Synopsis The Rebellion Record by : Frank Moore
Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masters of the Swindle by : Gianni Morelli
Download or read book Masters of the Swindle written by Gianni Morelli and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When trickery encounters credulity, spectacular things happen: we call them swindles. In this volume, we present 40 cases, from the nineteenth century to the present. Some of these are famous, some of these less famous, and many are elegant. But almost always, the schemes discussed here are works of genius."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Deadly Excitements by : Robert Sampson
Download or read book Deadly Excitements written by Robert Sampson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the American pulp magazine. Includes such titles as The Shadow, Black Mask, Weird Tales, Scientic Detective Monthly and Scarlet Adventuress as well as characters like Doc Savage, Captain Future, The Spider, Phantom Detective, The Whisperer and Senorita Scorpion, quick-trigger blonde from Old Texas.
Download or read book Swindled written by Bee Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many ways swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and even poisoned our food throughout history. In the hands of people and corporations who have prized profits above the health of consumers, food and drink have been tampered with in often horrifying ways--padded, diluted, contaminated, substituted, mislabeled, misnamed, or otherwise faked. Swindled gives a panoramic view of this history, from the leaded wine of the ancient Romans to today's food frauds--such as fake organics and the scandal of Chinese babies being fed bogus milk powder. Wilson pays special attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and England and their roles in developing both industrial-scale food adulteration and the scientific ability to combat it. As Swindled reveals, modern science has both helped and hindered food fraudsters--increasing the sophistication of scams but also the means to detect them. The big breakthrough came in Victorian England when a scientist first put food under the microscope and found that much of what was sold as "genuine coffee" was anything but--and that you couldn't buy pure mustard in all of London. Arguing that industrialization, laissez-faire politics, and globalization have all hurt the quality of food, but also that food swindlers have always been helped by consumer ignorance, Swindled ultimately calls for both governments and individuals to be more vigilant. In fact, Wilson suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves about the joys of food and cooking.
Download or read book Food & Sanitation written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Swindle by : Virginia Cowles
Download or read book The Great Swindle written by Virginia Cowles and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
