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Andreas Schroeder

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As the “resident Scam-meister” on the popular CBC Radio show Basic Black, Andreas Schroeder spent twelve years reporting on ingenious frauds, swindles, and hoaxes that have been committed around the world. Though the radio show ended in 2002, Andreas’s fascination with the subject continued, culminating in the publication of Scams! (2004), stories of some of history’s greatest tricksters.

Aside from having had one of the world’s all-time greatest job titles, Andreas has been an avid reader all his life and a writer for most of it. Born to a German-speaking Mennonite family who emigrated from Poland to Canada in 1951 (when he was five), he lived for 10 years on a farm in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, where he avoided farm chores whenever possible in...more

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Books by Andreas Schroeder

Average rating: 3.78 · 46 ratings · 12 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Duped!: True Stories of the World's Best Swindlers by Andreas Schroeder, Remy Simard (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Renovating Heaven: A Novel in Triptych 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Scams, Scandals, and Skulduggery: a Selection of the World's Most Outrageous Frauds 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Scams!: Ten Stories That Explore Some of the Most Outrageous Swindlers and Tricksters of All Time 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skulduggery 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Shaking It Rough: A Prison Memoir 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World's Most Outrageous Scams 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Thieves! 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Duped!: True Stories of the World's Best Swindlers by Andreas Schroeder, Remy Simard (Illustrator) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Robbers: True Stories of the World's Most Notorious Thieves by Andreas Schroeder, Remy Simard (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: