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Author Greenwood, Elizabeth, 1983- author.

Title Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud / Elizabeth Greenwood.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  364.163 GREENWOOD    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.16 GREENWOOD, ELIZABETH    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  364.16 GRE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.163 GRE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.163 GREENWOOD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  364.163 GREENWOOD    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents How to disappear -- How to be found -- The canoe man -- The believers -- Collateral damage -- Faking my death with Mr. Clean and Mr. Bean.
Summary "A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn. Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Missing persons -- Case studies.
Fraud -- Case studies.
Absence and presumption of death.
Absence and presumption of death. (OCoLC)fst00794689
Fraud. (OCoLC)fst00933786
Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
ISBN 9781476739335 (hardcover)
1476739331 (hardcover)
9781476739342 (trade paper)
147673934X (trade paper)
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