Hustlers and Con Men
- ISBN-10
- 0871313766
- ISBN-13
- 9780871313768
- Category
- Fraud
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982-01
- Publisher
- M Evans & Company
- Author
- Jay Robert Nash
Description
Anecdotal accounts of the most successful, most outrageous, and most expert scammers, flim-flammers, swindlers, and sharpers of the past two hundred years provide grist for Barnum's mill
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- 1976-01
- 372 pages
- Paperback
- M Evans & Company
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