Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

by Greg Pizzoli and Christina Wyman

A New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2015

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670016527
• ISBN13: 9780670016525
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.7" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4