impostors and imposture

Runaway Eve, having agreed to impersonate a girl named Aurora who disappeared three years earlier in order to help her cousins gain her inheritance, is haunted by the ghost of Aurora's best friend, who died on the night she went missing, and races against time to find out what really happened to Aurora and stop a killer from claiming her as a victim.

Profiles the life of Anna Anderson, a Polish peasant who spent most of her life claiming she was Nicholas II's youngest daughter, and examines the support she gained from strangers as well as members of the Royal Family and people who knew the Grand Duchess.

Hoping to ensure a better life for her child, a young slave woman exchanges her light-skinned baby for her master's.

Describes the lives and schemes of noted con artists.

Claiming that he is the real Marty Stillwater, a madman wages a terrifying campaign to eliminate mystery writer Marty Stillwater.

Describes ten hoaxes from around the world, including the Amityville haunting, the 1919 baseball World Series, and Milli Vanilli's lip synching.

Presents short biographies on the ten most successful art forgers, which includes Otto Wacker, Tom Keating, Karl Sim, Elmyr de Hory, John Drewe, and Zhang Daqian; and describes their techniques and how they were caught.

A biography of the woman who, disguised as a man, moved behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union during the Civil War.