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Shell Games: A True Story of Cops, Con Men, and the Smuggling of America's Strangest Wildlife
Paperback
Technology & EngineeringMarine LifeTrue Crime
ISBN13: 9780061537141
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Apr 12 2011
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.52 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature's bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life clam--the Geoduck--and then led wildlife police on a two-year-long chase, Shell Games is enthralling and remarkable from page one on.
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