The Big Con: The Classic Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Trick by David Maurer

The Big Con: The Classic Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Trick

David Maurer

304 pages first pub 1940 (view editions)

nonfiction sociology true crime
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'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved in The Big Con. A professor of linguistics who specialised in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers. Th...

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