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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

by David W. Maurer · 1940

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Shares insights from confidence men and swindlers on the schemes they used to cheat their victims.

Subject
historytrue crimepsychologyanthropologybiography
Genre
crimehistorical fiction
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 315 pages

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