TY - BOOK AU - Reading,Amy TI - The mark inside: a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con SN - 0307272486 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Norfleet, J. Frank, KW - Swindlers and swindling KW - United States KW - History N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -