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.
1 case in this part of Famous Impostors.
One very amusing variation of the countless imitations, which the success of this trick gave rise to, was the "cat hoax" at Chester, in…