Tricky Vic by Greg Pizzoli

"The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower"
Mr. Pizzoli exposes the life of a con whose real name was Robert Miller.  Robert Miller's most common alias was Count Victor Lustig.  After dropping out of school he sailed on transatlantic ocean liners and conned millionaires and aristocrats.  Then he moved onto to Chicago where he conned Al Capone .  With the police hot on his trail, he left the U.S. and pulled his biggest con-selling the Eiffel Tower!
Not an admirable person but a fascinating look into a con's life.
Mr. Pizzoli makes a wide variety of  historical events and locations accessible to elementary  students by providing sidebar fact boxes where he explains the prohibition, Eiffel Tower, Hotel de Crillon, counterfeiting, and Alcatraz.
Text features: fact boxes, diagram, headings, photographs/scans, glossary, selected sources, author's note (very interesting!!)
The illustrations require some interring (like the fish head man).
Warnings: con artist behavior, of course!, one illustration has symbols coming out of a man's mouth to represent swearing, one of Vic's methods to con men was to get them a bit drunk when striking a deal.