The slogan of the successful huckster is: 'There's a sucker born every minute'. No catch phrase better describes the art of the hoaxer, faker, cheat and charlatan - a fascinatingly fraudulent assembly of whom are gathered in this book. Some are suave and charming; others have far less appealing characteristics. But every one of them displays a single-minded determination to get one over on the unwary and the unsuspecting. Among the phonies and philanderers...