Product Description: Whiz Mob is David W. Maurer's classic study of the world of pickpockets. Similar to his best-known work, The Big Con, in Whiz Mob Maurer explains the colorful expressions and vivid words used by pickpockets and uses them to provide a window into the life and experiences of the professional criminal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: " When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shares insights from confidence men and swindlers on the schemes they used to cheat their victims

Product Description: Book by Maurer, David W., Futrell, Allan W., Wordell, Charles B.

Product Description: From dust jacket notes: "This book was prepared with the assistance of many of the great confidence men who flourished between 1910 and 1950, the period of greatest known activity in the confidence rackets. However, since the principles on which the confidence games operate are basic, and the psychological factors involved timeless, this book constitutes a classic in its field...read more