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Victor Lustig : the man who conned the world / Christopher Sandford.

by Sandford, Christopher, 1956- author.

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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2021.

Lustig, Victor, 1890-1947.

Swindlers and swindling -- Austria -- Biography.

9780750993678 (hardback) :

xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, Victor Lustig was a man of athletic good looks, with a taste for larceny and foreign intrigue. He spoke eight languages and went under nearly as many aliases in the course of a continent-hopping life that also saw him act as a double, or possibly triple, agent. Along the way, he found time to dupe an impressive variety of banks and casinos on both sides of the Atlantic; to escape from no fewer than five supposedly impregnable prisons; and to swindle Al Capone out of thousands of dollars, while living to tell the tale. Undoubtedly the greatest of his hoaxes was the sale, to a wealthy but gullible Parisian scrap-metal dealer, of the Eiffel Tower in 1921.

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