The mark inside : a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con /
Reading, Amy.
The mark inside : a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con / Amy Reading. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. - 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-276) and index.
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.
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.
0307272486 9780307272485 (hardcover) : $26.95
2011024919
Norfleet, J. Frank, 1864-1967.
Swindlers and swindling--History.--United States
The mark inside : a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con / Amy Reading. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. - 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-276) and index.
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.
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.
0307272486 9780307272485 (hardcover) : $26.95
2011024919
Norfleet, J. Frank, 1864-1967.
Swindlers and swindling--History.--United States