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• The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies (London: E. Stock, 1888), by W. A. Clouston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)

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

• Spook Crooks! Exposing the Secrets of the Prophet-eers Who Conduct Our Wickedest Industry (New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co., c1932), by Julien J. Proskauer, illust. by James Savage and Howard Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confessions of a Confidence Man: A Handbook for Suckers (New York: Scientific American Pub. Co., Munn and Co., 1923), by Edward H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1841), by Charles Mackay
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (based on the second edition of 1852), by Charles Mackay
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at econlib.org
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852), by Charles Mackay (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1869), by Charles Mackay
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology (Criminal Science Monograph #1; 1915), by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (Gutenberg text)
• The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Exposé of Successful Criminals (Boston: H. Houdini, 1906), by Harry Houdini (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Knock: ou, Le Triomphe de la Medecine (in French; Gallimard, c1924), by Jules Romains (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Knock: ou, Le Triomphe de la Medecine; M. le Trouhadec, Saisi par la Debauche (2 plays in French; Gallimard, 1924), by Jules Romains (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Notable Discovery of Coosenage Now Daily Practised by Sundry Lewd Persons, Called Connie-Catchers, and Crosse-Byters (London: Printed by T. Scarlet for T. Nelson, 1592), by Robert Greene (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)

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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

• South Pacific Affair (New York: Belmont Books, 1961), by Ed Lacy (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 Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• The Story of Dorothy Stanfield, Based on a Great Insurance Swindle, and a Woman! (New York: Book Supply Co., 1946), by Oscar Micheaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Plunderer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Roy Norton, illust. by Douglas Duer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

• Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Foul Play (based on an undated Grolier Society edition, with additional illustrations), by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• The Forger (c1927), by Edgar Wallace (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • 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)
• Tattered Tom: or, The Story of a Street Arab (Boston: Loring, c1871), by Horatio Alger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Following Pages Are a Fac-Simile Copy of the Original History of the Morristown Ghost! Published in 1792, With Appendix Compiled From County Records (originally published 1792; this edition Morristown and Dover, NJ: L.A. and R. H. Vogt, 1876), by Philanthropist (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

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

• Soviet Active Measures: Focus on Forgeries (1983), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• Le Taensa a-t-il Eté Forgé de Toutes Pièces? Réponse à M. D.G. Brinton (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Lucien Adam (multiple formats at Google)
• Le Taensa n'a pas Été Forgé de Toutes Pièces: Lettre de M. Friedrich Müller à Lucien Adam (in French and German; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Friedrich Müller (multiple formats at Google)
• An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and Other Bards Who Flourished in the Same Age (Montrose, Scotland: Printed by J. Watt, 1816), by Hugh M'Callum and John M'Callum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary: A Deception Exposed (reprinted from the American Antiquarian, March 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temora: An Epic Poem, by James Macpherson (HTML with commentary at Auburn)
• Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la Langue Taensa, Avec Textes Traduits et Commentés (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1882), by J. Parisot, Lucien Adam, and A. Dejouy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930), by Derk Bodde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Cookery, With Reference to Matter Attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare: A Letter Addressed to "The Athenaeum", With a Postscript Containing Some Remarks Upon the Refusal of That Journal to Print It (London: J.R. Smith, 1855), by Andrew Edmund Brae
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

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