Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

This account follows Robert Miller, a Czechoslovakian man who adopted the name Count Victor Lustig, or Vic. In the early 1900s, he went to Paris hoping to become an artist, but instead became a con artist. Beginning with smaller deceptions, Vic advanced to increasingly ambitious schemes. The story culminates with his attempt to sell the Eiffel Tower, tracing the route from his assumed identity to that notorious fraud.