Davenport assembles a long gallery of fraud and gullibility. He covers the oracles of the ancient world, false messiahs and prophets, relics and miracles, royal impostors and kings in disguise, military ruses, literary forgeries, and swindlers such as the master of disguise Charles Price.
An entertaining early-Victorian compendium for anyone fascinated by con artists and the people they fooled. Download the free EPUB.