Double Lives

di Audrey Valez (Autore)

Synthesised voice - female (Narratore)

Nightfall Media, 2026

Every person in this book was trusted completely, and every one of them was somebody else. In November 1974, Barbara Stonehouse began five weeks of learning how to be a widow. She answered the condolence letters and kept the household running, and then a call came from Australia, where her husband was sitting in custody under the name of a dead constituent. In 1997, Carey Gibson flew to Spain to collect the brother who had disappeared from San Antonio three years earlier. The boy waiting in the shelter had brown eyes and a French accent. Nicholas Barclay's eyes had been blue, and it would be months before anyone said so out loud. Double Lives collects twenty true stories of impostors and stolen identities. Cassie Chadwick, one of the boldest con artists of her century, borrowed a fortune from Cleveland banks against a promissory note she said was signed by Andrew Carnegie. Ferdinand Demara operated on wounded soldiers aboard a Canadian destroyer using a surgical textbook and a stolen name. John List kept every light in his house burning for weeks so that nobody on the street would think to look inside. Dorothea Puente kept a very good garden. Most of these cases were eventually solved, which makes them harder to sit with rather than easier. The facts are all on the table. What has never surfaced is a reason sufficient to explain the years of daily maintenance a second life demands. The people deceived in these pages were not careless and they were not naive. They looked at the same face every day for decades, and looking turned out to be no protection at all. A true crime audiobook about hoaxes and deceptions, told through the people who lived closest to them.

• Autore: Audrey Valez
• Narratore: Synthesised voice - female
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 04:02:13
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Nightfall Media
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 1990000035982