Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly
humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists
and their bold, outrageous scams—by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.

From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and
Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us
as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the
con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some
of the best—or worst.

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