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The ultimate assortment of Australia's craziest negatives and mad plans from a get good at storyteller. Australia is the birthplace and setting of a few of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed negatives and rorts ever sold. In the cleverest double-crosses to the most improbable and maddest plans, get good at storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of tugging a strategy or two. So how did a ingenious bushman who 'couldn't lie straight in bed' steal 1,000 brain of cattle and get away with it even though he was caught 'red handed'? And what about the disappearing masterpiece of design that all of the sudden dissolved and then reappear at an public sale years later? Or how about the butcher from Wagga who handed himself off as a French-born English duke to inherit a little fortune? And there was the tiny subject of a horse, a tin of coloring and a million-dollar double-cross that became known as the Fine Silk cotton Affair. In only the way he is able to, Jim Haynes has collected a veritable 'Gullible's Stories' of sudden and unusual true stories that may seem hard to believe.
