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Grifter

Raleigh Grifter, a bicycle manufactured by British company Raleigh from 1976 to 1983


Larry Garrison

Son of A Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America, won an Edgar Award for best Fact Crime book in 2002.

Le Père Goriot

In the winter of 1828–29, a French grifter-turned-policeman named Eugène François Vidocq published a pair of sensationalized memoirs recounting his criminal exploits.

Nathan Edmondson

As part of The New 52, Edmondson wrote the first eight issues of the series Grifter.

The Hemingway Hoax

Seventy-five years later in 1996, John Baird, a Hemingway scholar (and possessed of a completely eidetic memory), is persuaded by Sylvester "Castle" Castlemaine, a grifter in Key West, to create a fake manuscript to be passed off as one of the lost copies.


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