Featured Titles in At the Movies-Catch Me If You Can:
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Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit
by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding Publisher Comments Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform...
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The Grifters
by Jim Thompson Publisher Comments Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young--and loves Roy a little too intensely--to be taken for his mother. Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male...
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Paper Moon
by Joe David Brown Publisher Comments The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich's film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression, this is the timeless story of an 11-year-old orphan's rollicking journey through...
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How to Become a Professional Con Artist
by Dennis Marlock Publisher Comments A fool and his money are soon parted, so the saying goes. And if the job is done right, the fool doesn't even realize it's happened until the wily con artist has moved on to the next victim or the next town. In this entertaining and eye-opening book...
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Faith Healers
by James Randi Synopsis "A fascinating look at a world of misplaced faith and blind trust that seems more appropriate to the Dark Ages than to the end of the 20th century". -- Toronto Sun...
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Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
by Richard Rayner Synopsis Relying on a wealth of research, much of it either previously undiscovered or unavailable, Rayner (whose father was a con man) follows every twist and turn of Oscar Hartzell's amazing career during the 1930s, and discovers a classic saga of the American...
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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
by David W Maurer Review "[The book is] entertainment for crime literature addicts....a textbook for prospective confidence men." Edward Frank Allen, The New York Times Book Review...
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Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventure in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw
by Mark Svenvold Publisher Comments From Elmer McCurdy: The body was listed as "the Decedent," in official coroner's parlance Dead Body Case #7614812. Word soon got out about the fun-house mummy, about whom so little was known that the autopsy took on the character of an archaeological dig....
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments In the spirit of Nathaniel Philbrick?s In the Heart of the Sea, the true story of Captain Kidd?s adventure of betrayal and courage on the high seas. Everybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, America?s most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize...
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