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61) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
63) Con Academy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Con man Will Shea may have met his match in scammer Andrea Dufresne as they make a high-stakes deal that will determine who gets to stay at Connaughton Academy, one of the most elite and privileged preparatory schools in the country, and who must leave.
64) American hustle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
The story of a con-artist and his British partner who are forced to work for an FBI agent, and together they become involved in a sting operation known as Abscam.
65) Midnight cowboy
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
39 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. "Count Victor Lustig," moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A "con" artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city's most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to...
67) Joy house
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A conman finds himself on the run from the mob after seducing the wife of an American gangster. He hides away as the chauffeur of a beautiful widow and her young cousin, hopelessly entangled in a triangle of love and deception
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok nearly fifty years ago.
70) The scam
Author
Series
Description
"Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O'Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can't touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace. Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino in Macau. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global...
71) Buffaloed
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Desperate to escape her hometown of Buffalo and make enough money to attend her dream college, Peg decides to cheat the system after she is scammed by a debt collector.
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (617 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charming con man Neal Caffrey escapes from a maximum security prison, only to be recaptured by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Burke. With few options, Caffrey agrees to help the bureau bring down other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom. But before long, Caffrey finds himself playing a game of cat and mouse with those who want him back in prison or dead.
75) Three women
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sleazy bon vivant Edmund Lamont continues to live the high life despite being up to his eyebrows in debt. He begins wooing wealthy socialite Mabel Wilton, conning her into giving him $100,000 to "invest" for her. Meanwhile, her daughter Jeanne unexpectedly arrives from private school, and when Lamont sees her, he promptly begins seeing her surreptitiously. Inevitably both women find out the deception, but the smitten Jeanne agrees to marry him anyway....
76) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A psychiatrist finds herself drawn into the dangerous underworld of a con man when she tries to help a patient whose life has been threatened.
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson,...
78) The gatecrasher
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
7 CDs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stunning forty-year-old Fleur crashes funerals in pursuit of wealthy widowers to swindle. When she meets Richard, she finds herself enveloped by his closeknit family--they even welcome her forlorn teenage daughter into the fold. But someone else is also after Richard's fortune.
79) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stephen Crane is a con artist, swindler, and purported savior of a struggling sports car company. Sacked from an investment bank after one dodgy deal too many, Stephen lands a job at Douglas Motors, a business distinguished by old-fashioned craftsmanship and plagued by decades of familial mismanagement. There he finds himself playing surrogate son to the family patriarch, confidant to the adulterous son-in-law, and lover to the beautiful but willful...
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