The impostor heiress : Cassie Chadwick, the greatest grifter of the Guilded Age

Reed, Annie, author.

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"Paroled felon, rich doctor's wife, famous clairvoyant. Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of reinvention. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, she swept from town to town, assuming fresh identities to swindle a fortune so large that it rivaled the robber barons of the time. Then came arguably the greatest con in American history. Using forged documents and her peerless wits, Cassie convinced prominent men from...

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Chadwick, Elizabeth Bigley, 1857-1907

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ISBN:

9781635769821

Edition:

First Diversion Books edition

Description:

xiv, 337 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

The heiress Bigly
Don't speak to me of money
The first doctor
Flirtations
A little lamb
Kind master
The second doctor
The Forest City
Ignis fatuus
The little saint
Far more than ordinary cunning
Allegheny's pride
The most marvelous woman ever to wreck a bank
The richest man in the world
Lofty heights
Friends and associates
Cold-blooded business
Seek woman in $190,000 suit
Sound as a dollar
Absurd
The greatest kind of an outrage
The king of steel
All the great frauds of history
Acute Lumbago
A dreadful calamity
Dear Mr. Carnegie
The phoenix of her age
Rather honored
The most dangerous criminal in the world

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3318207

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