The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman-using criminal cunning, some confidence, and a bit of charm-to bring down a federal agent, a bank, and a city's worth of men.



Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of the trade. She swept from town to town, assuming new identities and running new swindles at each railroad stop. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, years after the robber barons had amassed their fortune...