Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Table of Contents

Perkin Warbeck

10 cases

The Hidden King

5 cases

The False Czar

2 cases

The False Dauphins

5 cases

Princess Olive

7 cases

Paracelsus

4 cases

Cagliostro

6 cases

Mesmer

3 cases

The Wandering Jew

4 cases

The Mississippi Scheme and Its Antecedents

7 cases

The Period

2 cases

Doctor Dee

2 cases

La Voisin

3 cases

Sir Edward Kelley

3 cases

Mother Damnable

4 cases

Matthew Hopkins

2 cases

Arthur Orton

10 cases

The Motive for Disguise

1 case

Hannah Snell

1 case

La Maupin

1 case

Mary East

2 cases

Hoaxes, Etc

1 case

Two London Hoaxes

2 cases

The Cat Hoax

1 case

The Military Review

1 case

The Toll-Gate

1 case

The Marriage Hoax

1 case

Buried Treasure

1 case

Dean Swift's Hoax

1 case

Hoaxed Burglars

1 case

Bogus Sausages

1 case

The Moon Hoax

1 case

Chevalier D'Eon

6 cases

Prolegomenon

1 case

No Descendants

1 case

The Queen's Secret

1 case

Bisley

4 cases

The Tradition

2 cases

The Difficulty of Proof

2 cases

The Time and the Opportunity

3 cases

The Identity of Elizabeth

7 cases

The Solution

8 cases

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