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Richard Rayner Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
Doubleday 2002 0385499493 / 9780385499491 Hardcover New
"'Brand New Book, Hardcover with dust jacket, has remainder dot on bottom page edges, clean, tight, unmarked, first edition, 6 1/2' x 9 1/2'', dust jacket is not clipped, no wear, index, 224 pages. .. Over the course of twenty years, from 1914 to 1933, Oscar Hartzell conned millions of dollars from tens of thousands of trusting, innocent people. And when he was caught, they gave him more. There are no folk heroes more all-American than con artists. Though we may openly condemn them, deep down we admire their brazen bravado, their cleverness, their shrewd understanding of how to rouse ambition and greed in their hapless victims. They offer the American dream on the quick, and, after all, don’t suckers get what they deserve? 1st Edition'' ID: mon0000001722"
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6.84 USD
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Richard Rayner The Blue Suit: A Memoir of Crime
Mariner Books 1997 0395860059 / 9780395860052 Paperback Very Good
"'() Furiously written with a sardonic air of grace, this unforgettable memoir of crime and misdemeanor is both tragic and comic--an inspired act of retrieval. Rayner had a peripatetic childhood, but he seemed to have found some sense of place when he attended Cambridge. Far from affording security, however, Cambridge--combined with an obsession with books--proved to be the setting for the start of a bizarre life of crime.'''' ID: mon0000082642"
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7.82 USD
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Richard Rayner The Cloud Sketcher
HarperCollins 2001 0060196343 / 9780060196349 Hardcover Very Good
"First Edition, tight binding, light creasing to Dust Jacket,() As the liner Ile de France docks in New York harbor, passengers notice with surprise the policemen gathered below and speculate as to which criminal among them will soon be apprehended. Here and there a single word floats above the general din: murder. Now and then a sage head tips knowingly in the direction of a flamboyant bootlegger: a crime of passion. But when the crowd begins to make its way down the gangplank, the notorious gangster slips through unmolested. Instead it's a celebrated architect with bums from a childhood accident partly covered by the patch over one eye -- who submits to authorities and is taken away in handcuffs. So begins The Cloud Sketcher, a passionate tale of love and war and art that ranges from the ice fields of the Arctic Circle at the dawn of the last century to the ruthless world of New York real estate speculation in the 1920s. In a tiny village in the northernmost reaches of Finland, a ID: mon0000108885"
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