King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor by Paul Willetts

King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor

Paul Willetts

368 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime informative medium-paced
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The spellbinding tale of virtuosic hustler Edgar Laplante--a Tom Ripley-meets-Jay Gatsby king of Jazz Age con artists, whose spectacular downfall came because he began to be seduced by his own lies.For the devilishly handsome erstwhile vaudeville ...

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