Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

by Tori Telfer

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A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams-by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.

From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best-or worst.

In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Remy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six...

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  • ISBN10 0063065134
  • ISBN13 9780063065130
  • Publish Date 23 February 2021
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 23 February 2023
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperCollins