Scams!: ten stories that explore some of the most outrageous swindlers and tricksters of all time (True stories from the edge)
Award winning fiction, Award winning non-fiction, Law and crime biography, True crime
Automated braille
Summary
Ten true tales of outrageous trickery. Includes how a group of Germans perpetrated one of the biggest, most sophisticated banknote counterfeiting schemes ever seen; how the world was fooled for nearly a decade when a "lost tribe" was discovered in… the Philippines; and how Donald Crowhurst almost won the first round-the-world yacht race without ever leaving the Atlantic Ocean. For junior and senior high school readers. Winner of the 2005 Red Maple Award. 2004.