From Paris to Alcatraz: The true, untold story of one of the most notorious con-artists of the twentieth century - Count Victor Lustig

My start in life was as the daughter of a notorious man. He was clever, had a brilliant mind, but used it badly…I disclose in this book… the life of the man whom I loved every day of my life and who loved me tenderly, the life of my father, Victor Lustig. —Betty Jean Lustig, 1982