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

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

David W. Maurer

280 pages first pub 1940 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging informative slow-paced
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Offers the American lingo (the write, the rag, the pay-off, ropers, shills, the cold poke and the convincer) and indeliable characters (Yellow Kid Weil, Barney the Patch, the Seldom-Seen Kid, Limehouse Chappie and Larry the Lug). This title presen...

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