Oscar Hartzell - Books

Books

  • Richard Rayner, Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist (2002, ISBN 0-385-49949-3)
Con artists by century
17th century and earlier
  • William Chaloner
  • Thomas Dangerfield
  • William Sharington
18th century
  • Barbara Erni
  • Astafy Dolgopolov
  • Jean Henri Latude
  • Gregor MacGregor
  • Philip Nolan
  • James Wilkinson
19th century
  • Alves dos Reis
  • John Bodkin Adams
  • Philip Arnold
  • Nicky Arnstein
  • Lou Blonger
  • Horatio Bottomley
  • Helga de la Brache
  • John R. Brinkley
  • Ed "Big Ed" Burns
  • Cassie Chadwick
  • Louis Enricht
  • Arthur Furguson
  • Lord Gordon-Gordon
  • Oscar Hartzell
  • Bertha Heyman
  • Hungry Joe
  • Ignaz Karl Hummel
  • Sharmel Iris
  • Canada Bill Jones
  • Henri Lemoine
  • Victor Lustig
  • William McCloundy
  • Charles Miller
  • Phillip Musica
  • Tom O'Brien
  • George C. Parker
  • Charles Ponzi
  • William Roupell
  • Death Valley Scotty
  • Henry More Smith
  • Soapy Smith
  • Titanic Thompson
  • William Thompson
  • Eduardo de Valfierno
  • Reed Waddell
  • Joseph Weil
20th century
  • Alan Conway
  • Dona Branca
  • Bernard Cornfeld
  • John George Haigh
  • Archibald Hall
  • David Hampton
  • Konrad Kujau
  • Don Lapre
  • Natwarlal
  • Dorothea Helen Puente
  • Kenneth Lay
  • Henri Lemoine
  • Danny Pang
  • Horace de Vere Cole
Alive today
  • Frank Abagnale
  • Kweku Adoboli
  • Tino De Angelis
  • Du Jun
  • David "Race" Bannon
  • Philippe Berre
  • Matthew Cox
  • Steve Comisar
  • James M. Davis
  • Edward Davenport
  • Frank DiPascali
  • Marc Dreier
  • Solomon Dwek
  • Maria Duval
  • Billie Sol Estes
  • Peter Foster
  • Kevin Foster
  • Robert Hendy-Freegard
  • David G. Friehling
  • Christian Gerhartsreiter
  • Mark Hofmann
  • James Hogue
  • Laura Pendergest-Holt
  • Norman Hsu
  • Clifford Irving
  • Samuel Israel III
  • Hasan Ali Khan
  • Sante Kimes
  • Russell King
  • Nick Leeson
  • Bon Levi
  • Bernard Madoff
  • Matt the Knife
  • Sergei Mavrodi
  • Barry Minkow
  • Richard Allen Minsky
  • Semion Mogilevich
  • Lou Pearlman
  • Ronald Pellar
  • Tom Petters
  • Peter Popoff
  • Gert Postel
  • Ron Rewald
  • John Edward Robinson
  • Scott W. Rothstein
  • Steven Jay Russell
  • Michael Sabo
  • Casey Serin
  • Charles Sobhraj
  • Gary Sorenson
  • Allen Stanford
  • Omid Tahvili
  • Kevin Trudeau
  • Frank Vennes
  • Sholam Weiss
  • Confidence trick
  • List of confidence tricks
    • in books and literature
    • in television and movies
  • Fictional con artists

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