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Pizzoli, Greg

Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

48 pp. | Viking | March, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-670-01652-5 $17.99

(2) 4-6 Con artist ("but an artist all the same") "Count Victor Lustig" (born Robert Miller) fleeced his way as a card shark back and forth across the Atlantic; went into a counterfeiting scam in Chicago; then, in his greatest trick, convinced a Parisian businessman to buy the "salvage" of the Eiffel Tower. A genially sinister design incorporates cartoons and photographs; sidebars provide historical context. Websites. Bib., glos.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2015