Search Results: Australiana; Crime from E. Manning Books

Victory Books, Reprint, 2011. Softcover (15 x 23 cm), 408 pages. ISBN: 9780522858594. Very Good condition. "In their highly entertaining and often shocking book the authors follow up their bestselling 'Gangland Australia' by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow. Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks - changing paper into banknotes, selling other people's property, faking deaths, forging paintings, promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money." Weight: 585g.

Floradale Productions Pty Ltd and Sly Ink Pty Ltd, November 1995. Softcover (13 x 20 cm), vii, 229 pages, b&w photographs. ISBN: 0646250647. Good condition. Bumped, scuffed, scratched, creased and soiled. Pages tanning, foxing.