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.
Practical jokes of this nature have more than once led to serious results. In the summer of 1812 a report was extensively circulated that a…