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• Celebrated Claimants, From Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1874) (Gutenberg text)

• Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Famous Impostors (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by Bram Stoker
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Humbugs of the World (New York: Carleton, 1866), by P. T. Barnum
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images at MOA
• 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)
• Fanaticism: Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. (New York: the author, 1835), by G. Vale (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Three Impostors, Translated (With Notes and Comments) From a French Manuscript of the Work Written in the Year 1716, With a Dissertation on the Original Treatise, and a Bibliography of the Various Editions (editorship attributed to Briggs; 1904), ed. by Samuel Briggs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino (reprinted from Reformed Church Review, 1910), by Stanley Lefevre Krebs (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (electronic edition), by James Randi (HTML at randi.org)

• Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, by John Mathew Gutch (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)

• The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Miraculous Conformist: or, An Account of Severall Marvailous Cures Performed by the Stroking of the Hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick, With a Physicall Discourse Thereupon (Oxford, UK: Printed by H. Hall for Ric: Davis, 1666), by Henry Stubbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed: Written by Himself In a Letter Addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., Whereunto Are Annexed the Testimonials of Several Eminent and Worthy Persons of the Chief Matters of Fact Therein Related (London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1666), by Valentine Greatrakes, contrib. by Robert Boyle
  • HTML at Oxford Text Archive
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia: In Qua Maxima Improborum et Indoctorum Turba Sub Dio Enudatur, Quos aut Subdola Pietatis Pelle Velatos, aut Insolenti Scientiae Fumo Seu Fuco Obductos, Vel Irreligio Mera, Vel Rapax Avaritia Omnes Ultra Impudentes ad Medicinae Praxin Egit Praecipites (in Latin; London: Excudebat Aug. Matheus, 1624), by Peter Bowne (page images at NIH)

• Brat Farrar (c1949), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1898), by Anthony Hope, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Ince (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain, illust. by James Mapes Dodge and Louis Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Room 13, by Edgar Wallace (illustrated HTML with commentary at freeread.com.au)
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• The Sin That Was His (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., c1917), by Frank L. Packard
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1857), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Subgenation: The Theory of the Normal Relation of the Races; An Answer to "Miscegenation" (New York: J. Bradburn, 1864), by John H. Van Evrie
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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

• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Great American Fraud: A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted From Collier's Weekly (ca. 1906), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Cautions and Advice to the Public, Respecting Some Abuses in Medicine, Through the Malpractices of Quacks or Pretenders to the Medical and Chirurgical Arts (London: Printed for the author, and sold by H.D. Symonds, ca. 1787), by William Jackson (page images at NIH)

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

• She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)

• The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? (1999), by Rex A. Hudson (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh, A Penal Exile in Australia, 1825-1844 (1929 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Ralph Rashleigh (1952 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)

• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Life and Bloody Career of the Executed Criminal, James Copeland, the Great Southern Land Pirate (second edition; Jackson, MS: Pilot Pub. Co., 1874), by J. R. S. Pitts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw, James Copeland, Executed at Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi (c1909), by J. R. S. Pitts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Last Public Execution in America, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Autobiography of a Criminal (New York: Duffield and Co., 1930), by Henry Tufts, ed. by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Last Raid of the Daltons: A Reliable Recital of the Battle With the Bandits at Coffeyville, Kansas, October 5, 1892 (originally published 1892; reprinted with an added foreword 1954), by David Stewart Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

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