Geronimo Stilton, reporter and editor for "The Rodent's Gazette" in New Mouse City, finds himself fighting for control of his life and livelihood when a look-alike impostor tries to take over the newspaper.
When sixteen-year-old Chap is mistaken for a missing boy, he leaves the home where he has been living temporarily and takes on this new identity, not knowing that it is as dangerous and uncertain as the life he has left behind.
Presents five hoaxes that have appeared since the beginning of the twentieth century including Edward Gardner's claim that he captured fairies on film in 1917 through to the crop circle craze in the 1960s.
Presents a collection of eleven stories that turned out to be hoaxes including Edgar Allan Poe's fantastic tale of a hot air balloon crossing the Atlantic in the 1840s.
the astonishing rise and spectacular fall of a serial imposter
Seal, Mark
2011
Describes the deceptive life of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who came to the United States from Germany in 1978 and posed as a foreign exchange student and spent twelve years posing as a Rockefeller, and discusses his connection to the disappearance of a California couple in the mid-1980s and other crimes.
Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.
Fifteen-year-old Hope describes events leading her to agree to her boyfriend's plan to stage her abduction, and the consequences for their relationship, her family life, and her budding career as an actress.
