The Big Con by David W. Maurer

The Big Con

David W. Maurer with Lucy Sante

336 pages first pub 1940 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging informative slow-paced
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The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.” “Of all the grifters...

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