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Explore 24 books like History’s Greatest Scandals by Ed Wright — a handpicked selection united by White Collar Crime, Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, True Crime, and Reference.

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Top related books to History’s Greatest Scandals

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of History’s Greatest Scandals.

The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession and Revenge (True Crime Gift) — Mitzi Szereto

The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession and Revenge (True Crime Gift)

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

A Very English Scandal Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment — John Preston

A Very English Scandal Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Blood on Their Hands Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty — Mandy Matney

Blood on Their Hands Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Burn Back Better – Lahaina A Perfect Storm Or a Perfect Crime? — Stephanie Pierucci

Burn Back Better – Lahaina A Perfect Storm Or a Perfect Crime?

Stephanie Pierucci

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

The Key Man The True Story of how the Global Elite was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale — Simon Clark

The Key Man The True Story of how the Global Elite was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

My Friend Anna The True Story of a Fake Heiress — Rachel DeLoache Williams

My Friend Anna The True Story of a Fake Heiress

Rachel DeLoache Williams

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Number Go Up Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall — Zeke Faux

Number Go Up Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Easy Money Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud — Benjamin McKenzie

Easy Money Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

Benjamin McKenzie

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

My Adventures with Your Money George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist — T.D. Thornton

My Adventures with Your Money George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Epstein Dead Men Tell No Tales — Dylan Howard

Epstein Dead Men Tell No Tales

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Billion Dollar Whale The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World — Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Guilty Till Proven Innocent American Justice? – If You Can Afford It! — Penny White

Guilty Till Proven Innocent American Justice? – If You Can Afford It!

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Hype How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists are Taking Over the Internet–and why We’re Following — Gabrielle Bluestone

Hype How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists are Taking Over the Internet–and why We’re Following

Gabrielle Bluestone

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Practice to Deceive — Ann Rule

Practice to Deceive

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries — Mitzi Szereto

The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Madoff The Man Who Stole $65 Billion — Erin Arvedlund

Madoff The Man Who Stole $65 Billion

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

I Did It The Largest Woman-Run Ponzi Scheme in American History — Neil Senturia

I Did It The Largest Woman-Run Ponzi Scheme in American History

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

The Informant A True Story — Kurt Eichenwald

The Informant A True Story

Kurt Eichenwald

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

The Big Con The Story of the Confidence Man — David Maurer

The Big Con The Story of the Confidence Man

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Scams and Cons: A True Crime Collection Manipulative Masterminds, Serial Swindlers, and Crafty Con Artists (Including Anna Sorokin, Elizabeth Holmes, Simon Leveiv, Issei Sagawa, John Edward Robinson, and More) — Madison Salters

Scams and Cons: A True Crime Collection Manipulative Masterminds, Serial Swindlers, and Crafty Con Artists (Including Anna Sorokin, Elizabeth Holmes, Simon Leveiv, Issei Sagawa, John Edward Robinson, and More)

Madison Salters

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Catch Me If You Can The True Story of a Real Fake — Frank W. Abagnale

Catch Me If You Can The True Story of a Real Fake

Frank W. Abagnale

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Selling Snake Oil Investment Lessons from the World’s Greatest Frauds — Mo Lidsky

Selling Snake Oil Investment Lessons from the World’s Greatest Frauds

Themes: White Collar Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds — Charles Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Themes: Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime • Reference

Stalking the Herd Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery — Christopher O’Brien

Stalking the Herd Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery — Christopher O’Brien

Christopher O'Brien

Themes: Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions • True Crime • Reference

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of White Collar Crime, Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, True Crime — the same threads that run through History’s Greatest Scandals by Ed Wright. Among the authors featured: Mitzi Szereto, John Preston, Mandy Matney, Stephanie Pierucci, and others.

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