fraud

"A stranded alien continues to hide in Patience, Washington, posing as the town's doctor. He has no intention of leaving--unless it's to get back to his home planet! When a startling new mystery catches his attention, he takes a trip to New York City with the hope of finally finding a way to communicate with his home world"--Provided by publisher.

Read about hoaxes and lies that have been spread in both the past and present, and learn how they have deceived people.

"Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle, a smart, gifted, and stranded alien explorer hiding in plain sight, has been posing as a doctor and solving crimes in the small town of Patience, Washington. After Harry accidentally exposes himself to investigators who are on his trail, a mysterious arsonist and a stubborn federal agent arrive in town to heat things up! With a little help from the local shaman, Harry and nurse Asta finally realize the danger they're both in, and some other allies could help them avoid detection as another murder mystery rocks their town"--.

Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle is actually a stranded alien explorer hiding out in a sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest. His short time as a doctor in Patience, Washington, has kept him busy solving mysteries though! With a few successes under his belt, Harry tackles another one after the contents of an old briefcase hint that a murderer could be hiding in town in plain sight--using an alias. Sound familiar?.

"Living undercover as a semi-retired, small-town doctor, a stranded alien's only hope is to stay off humanity's radar until he can be rescued. When he's pulled into a surprising murder mystery by the town's desperate mayor and struggling police chief, 'Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle' learns more about the human condition than he ever wanted to"--Provided by publisher.

"A . . . novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--Provided by publisher.

"The story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and politics"--OCLC.

Lovers Nicholas Brink and Clay Guillory escape to Venice for a fresh start, hoping to finance their liaison with the sale of counterfeit silver to an unsuspecting wealthy retiree. The plan seems foolproof, but its execution proves harder to carry out as both Nicholas and Clay grapple with the pasts they're running away from and the morals of their scheme.

Currency is a fact of human life, and this book explores its genesis, beginning with those early coins and precious objects and tracing their legacy to the banknotes and fraud-detecting devices of the twenty-first century.

"This volume analyzes the various types of hoaxes that appear online and in the news, providing readers with a comprehensive set of tools to discover whether a story, image, or quotation is true"--Amazon.