literary forgeries and mystifications

Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, accompanies the famous and infamous John Slater on a trip to Malaysia, hoping to find out how he destroyed her parents' marriage, but instead finds herself drawn into a dangerous mystery abroad.

Profiles authors who have created fraudulent literary works for fame, money, politics, and simple amusement throughout history and discusses the impact those types of hoaxes have had on the publishing industry and the history of literature.

Chronicles the life of Curzio Inghirami and reveals how he staged the most outlandish prank of the seventeenth century by forging an array of ancient Latin and Etruscan documents.