{"product_id":"great-australian-scams-cons-rorts-jim-haynes-2017","title":"Great Australian scams, cons \u0026 rorts. Jim Haynes. 2017.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAustralia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ 9781760296506 \/ Large","offer_id":42464243482706,"sku":"HAYNES8","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/60F63B59-781D-4F38-ABA0-5E9DCE839959.jpg?v=1782870569","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/great-australian-scams-cons-rorts-jim-haynes-2017","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}