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
Human-narrated audio
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. Some descriptions of violence. For junior and senior high school readers. Winner of the 2005 Red Maple Award. 2004.
Title Details
Publisher
Annick Press
Copyright Date
2004
Book number
2538615
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Heather Mitchell
Duration
5 hours 14 minutes 58 seconds
Audio producer
CNIB, 2006.