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The mark inside : a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con / Amy Reading.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reading, Amy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swindlers and swindling--United States--History.
- Norfleet, J. Frank, 1865-1967.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- Summary:
- A narrative history of con artistry in America documents the early twentieth-century efforts of J. Frank Norfleet to track down a gang of confidence men who swindled him out of everything he had.
- Contents:
- Confidence
- Benjamin Franklin's disciples
- Cowboy justice
- Humbug
- Double-crossings
- A small history of the big con
- The con never dies
- The making of a confidence kingpin
- The machine and the sting
- The raid
- Pure speculation
- The showdown
- The mark inside.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307272485
- 0307272486
- OCLC:
- 732967805
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