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from the Crusades to the 17th century

You'll see slower-to-change men's fashions — shirts

books on waltzes

where night after night he listened to master storytellers weave spellbinding tales around the dancing embers of lodge fires

The Confidence-Man a thoroughOn April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman to win over his not entirely innocent dupes. The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human