A Tangled Web
Charles (Prince of Wales), Charles Clover
Published 1994
The most popular hidden identity books
Hidden identity stories keep a secret at their center. A lost heir, a masked vigilante, a spy or a runaway is living as someone else, and one slip could expose them. The tension builds toward the moment the truth comes out, and the fallout is always worth it.
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Double Negative
Charlotte Fullerton
Published 2010
93 pages
The Lie and the Lady
Kate Noble
2015 · 2023 edition
Come A-Smokin'
Nelson Nye
1983 · 2012 edition
100 pages
The Woman Who Fooled The World
Beau Donelly, Nick Toscano
2017 · 2018 edition
336 pages
Bunk
Kevin Young
2017 · 2021 edition
1 page
Famous Impostors
Bram Stoker
2001 · 2018 edition
314 pages
Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
Miriam Eliav-Feldon, Tamar Herzig
Published 2014
250 pages
Tall Tales, Legends and Hoaxes From Johnny Appleseed to Jersey Devils and Internet Scams
Nat Segaloff
Published 2010
220 pages
The Will
Barbara Raymond
Published 1998
199 pages
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
Mark Twain, R. D. Gooder
1992 · 2009 edition
320 pages
The Humbugs of the World
P. T. Barnum
2001 · 2018 edition
364 pages
For the Winner
Emily Hauser
Published 2017
448 pages
The Prince and the Pooch (The Adventures of Wishbone)
Caroline Leavitt, Mark Twain
Published 1997
134 pages
The Separation
Christopher J. Priest
Published 2001
320 pages
The Amazing Mrs Livesey The Remarkable Story of Australia's Greatest Imposter
Freda Marnie Nicholls
Published 2016
386 pages
Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Jack Lynch
2008 · 2016 edition
232 pages
Forging History The Detection of Fake Letters & Documents
Kenneth W. Rendell
Published 1994
171 pages
Stingaree
Ernest William Hornung
2002 · 2018 edition
160 pages
Hoax
Ian Tattersall, Peter Névraumont
Published 2018
256 pages
Media Hoaxing The Yes Men and Utopian Politics
Ian Reilly
Published 2018
181 pages
The Kingdom of Matthias A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
Paul E. Johnson, Sean Wilentz
1994 · 2012 edition
234 pages
Mad Or Bad? The Exploits of Amy Bock, 1859-1943 Mad Or Bad? the Life and Exploits of Amy Bock
Jenny Coleman
Published 2010
382 pages
The Amazing Spider-Man Vs. Mysterio
Michael Siglain, Todd Nauck
Published 2012
24 pages