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(0)Tori Telfer
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 316, 15 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1998, an FBI profiler infamously declared in a homicide conference, 'There are no female serial killers'--but Lady Killers offers fourteen creepy examples to the contrary. Though largely forgotten by history, female serial killers such as Erzsébet Báyhory, Nannie Doss, Mary Ann Cotton, and Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova rival their male counterparts in cunning, cruelty, and appetite for destruction" -- Page [4] cover.