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In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. "Count Victor Lustig," moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A "con" artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city's most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to...
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When Minerva, Thomasina, and Ravi hear that the man who has just arrived in Pembrose, Cornwall, is planning to collect the hundreds of turtle eggs that are nearly ready to hatch on a nearby island, they come up with a plan to save the baby turtles--but the plan is complicated by the appearance of a mysterious boy who wants to join the Order of the Owls.