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Great Australian scams, cons and rorts : a book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city / [written and] read by Jim Haynes.

Great Australian scams, cons and rorts : a book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city / [written and] read by Jim Haynes.
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ISBN 9781489412690
Name Haynes, Jim author, narrator.
Title Great Australian scams, cons and rorts : a book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city / [written and] read by Jim Haynes.
Edition MP3 edition ; Unabridged.
Published Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2017]
℗2017
Description 1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (10 hr., 5 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Digital File Characteristics audio file MP3
Performers Read by the author.
Summary Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two. So how did a clever bushman who 'couldn't lie straight in bed' steal a thousand head of cattle and get away with it even though he was caught 'red handed'? And what about the disappearing work of art that suddenly dissolved only to reappear at an auction years later? Or how about the butcher from Wagga who passed himself off as a French-born English duke to inherit a small fortune. And then there was the small matter of a horse, a tin of paint and a million dollar double-cross that became known as the Fine Cotton Affair. In only the way he can, Jim Haynes has collected a veritable 'Gullible's Tales' of unexpected and surprising true stories that may seem hard to believe.
System details Requires the use of an MP3 enabled CD player or computer.
Subjects Crime -- Australia
False personation -- Australia
Fraud -- Australia
Swindlers and swindling -- Australia
Genre Audiobooks
Added Corporate Names Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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