Swindlers and swindling

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• Criminals
• Crime

• Tricksters
• Fraud

• Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
• Swindlers and swindling -- Juvenile fiction
• Forgery
• Quacks and quackery

• Grifters
• Scam artists
• Scammers and scamming
• Confidence women
• Confidence men
• Con artists

• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, by Charles Mackay
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (second edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (HTML at econlib.org)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2-volume edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
• Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology, by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (Gutenberg text)
• The Spider and the Fly: or, Tricks, Traps, and Pitfalls of City Life, By One Who Knows (compilation of some previous publications, with some early pages missing; New York: C. Miller and Co., 1875), contrib. by Henry William Herbert
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (New York: E. Arnold, 1897), by Grant Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay, by Grant Allen (Gutenberg text)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches, by Johnson Jones Hooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Orley Farm (new edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Anthony Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Luke Walton, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Mouse in the Mountain (originally published 1943), by Norbert Davis (HTML at munseys.com)

• Counterfeit Deterrent Features for the Next-Generation Currency Design, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images at NAP)

• Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism (2009), by Gregory F. Treverton, Carl Matthies, Karla J. Cunningham, Jeremiah Goulka, Greg Ridgeway, and Anny Wong (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2011), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Poetical Works of Ossian (text from the Crosby and Nichols edition of 1863), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
• Temora: An Epic Poem, by James Macpherson (HTML with commentary at Auburn)

• An Authentic Account of the Shaksperian Manuscripts, by W. H. Ireland (HTML at Rutgers)
• The Rowley Poems, by Thomas Chatterton, ed. by Maurice Evan Hare (HTML with commentary at exclassics.com)

• Tacitus and Bracciolini: The Annals Forged in the XVth Century (1878), by John Wilson Ross (Gutenberg text)

• Literary Ethics: An Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at emersoncentral.com)

• Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder Concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct Against Professor Ward Churchill (2006), by University of Colorado, Boulder (PDF at colorado.edu)

• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America, by James Harvey Young (HTML at quackwatch.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies, by W. A. Clouston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Annancy Stories (New York: R. H. Russell, 1899), by Pamela Colman Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jamaica Anansi Stories, by Martha Warren Beckwith, contrib. by Helen Roberts (HTML with sheet-music images at sacred-texts.com)
• Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes (London: Pub. for the Folk-lore Society by D. Nutt, 1907), ed. by Walter Jekyll, contrib. by Alice Werner, Charles Samuel Myers, and Lucy Etheldred Broadwood
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Coyote Steals Fire: A Shoshone Tale (illustrated book; Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation of Utah (Washakie) (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Your Money's Worth: A Study in the Waste of the Consumer's Dollar, by Stuart Chase and Frederick John Schlink (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Diversity Visa Program and its Susceptibility to Fraud and Abuse: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, April 29, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diversity Visa Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 15, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Browder Case: A Summary of Facts; A Brief for Justice and Fair Play in America (1941), by Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder (New York) (PDF at fcla.edu)

• Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso, Briefly Summarised by His Daughter (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Gina Lombroso, contrib. by Cesare Lombroso (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The History of the Prison Psychoses (1912), by Paul H. Nitsche and Karl Wilmanns, trans. by Francis Barnes and Bernard Glueck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Book of Remarkable Criminals, by H. B. Irving (HTML at Virginia)
• A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.