# The Big Con

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- Book: [The Big Con](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-maurer/the-big-con) ([The Big Con.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-maurer/the-big-con.md))
- Authors: [David Maurer](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-maurer)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8549-538-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 1999-07-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything...