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Author Reading, Amy.

Title The mark inside [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con / Amy Reading.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-276) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Swindlers and swindling -- United States -- History.
Norfleet, J. Frank, 1864-1967.
Genre Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Reading, Amy. Mark inside. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 9780307272485 (DLC) 2011024919 (OCoLC)732967805
ISBN 9780307957610 (electronic bk.)
0307957616 (electronic bk.)
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