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  • Spook crooks! Exposing the secrets of the prophet-eers who conduct our wickedest industry. Profusely illustrated by James and Howard Savage. New York, A. L. Burt Co.

    • Text
    • Ann Arbor, Mich., Gryphon Books, 1971 [c1932]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 72-5214Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Play Bluff; oder, Der krumme Weg nach oben; aus den Bekenntnissen eines Finanzgenies.

    • Text
    • [München] Bechtle [c1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 73-1430Offsite
  • Ulv i fårakläder; strövtåg på skojarnas marknad. Ciceron: Pontus Stefansson. Vid protokollet: Curt Falkenstam.

    • Text
    • [Stockholm] Geber [1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 73-1338Offsite
  • The great swindlers, by A. F. L. Deeson.

    • Text
    • New York, Drake Publishers [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 73-3070Offsite
  • The fountain pen conspiracy.

    • Text
    • New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 74-546Offsite
  • Great swindlers: Horatio Bottomley, Maundy Gregory, Alves Reis, Ivar Kreuger, Victor Lustig, "Colonel De Bourg", Arthur Orton, Jabez Balfour, Charles Ponzi, Clarence Hatry, Serge Rubinstein, John Sadleir, Norman Mascall, by A. F. L. Deeson.

    • Text
    • Slough, Foulsham, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 74-1158Offsite
  • Frauds, swindles, and rackets; a red alert for today's consumers [by] Robert S. Rosefsky.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Follett Pub. Co. [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 74-1362Offsite
  • Szélhámosok szabadlábon.

    • Text
    • Budapest [Táncsics Könyvkiadó] 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLC 74-399Offsite
  • Szélhámosok, gyilkosok; (válogatás).

    • Text
    • [Budapest] Minerva, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLC 74-296Offsite
  • Der junge Betrüger und seine kriminelle Entwicklung. Ein phänomenologische Untersuchung von verurteilten Betrügern.

    • Text
    • Zürich, Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 74-1853Offsite
  • The Levy caper.

    • Text
    • New York, Macmillan [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 75-118Offsite
  • Peroff : the man who knew too much / by L. H. Whittemore.

    • Text
    • New York : Morrow, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 75-3493Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The bunco book, by Walter B. Gibson.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, c1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZT-861 no. 1-67Offsite
  • The mediaeval Islamic underworld : the Banū Sāsān in Arabic society and literature / by Clifford Edmund Bosworth.

    • Text
    • Leiden : Brill, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFL 77-115 v. 1Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFL 77-115 v. 2Offsite
  • The con-men / Gerald Sparrow.

    • Text
    • London : Barker, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 76-1205Offsite
  • Great hoaxes and famous importors / by Carlson Wade.

    • Text
    • Middle Village, N.Y. : Jonathan David Publishers, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 76-1584Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • La France des gogos : trois siècles de scandales financiers / Gilbert Guilleminault, Yvonne Singer-Lecocq.

    • Text
    • Paris : Fayard, c1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 77-996Offsite
  • Dare to be great / Rudy Maxa.

    • Text
    • New York : Morrow, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 77-3993Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Under protective surveillance / Marlis Flemming.

    • Text
    • Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 77-5348Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Road hustler : the career contingencies of professional card and dice hustlers / Robert C. Prus, C. R. C. Sharper.

    • Text
    • Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 77-1492Offsite
  • Wall Street swindler / by Michael Hellerman, with Thomas C. Renner. 1st ed.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 77-3256Offsite
  • Swindled! : Classic business frauds of the seventies / edited by Donald Moffitt.

    • Text
    • Princeton, N.J. : Dow Jones Books, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 78-1114Offsite
  • The right way to do wrong; an exposé of successful criminals.

    • Text
    • [Las Vegas, Gambler's Book Club, 1974]
    • 1974-1906
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 78-2280|m(SASB)Offsite
  • O mito da poupança na farsa dos carnês : Peter Kellemen - o Brasileiro é antes de tudo um trouxa / Lago Burnett.

    • Text
    • Rio de Janeiro : Civilização Brasileira, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 79-6618Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Frauds, hoaxes, and swindles / by Daniel Cohen ; illustrated by David Prebenna.

    • Text
    • New York : Watts, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 80-2637Offsite
  • Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with a foreword by Andrew Tobias ; with facsim. title pages and reproductions of original ill. from the editions of 1841 and 1852.

    • Text
    • New York : Harmony Books, 1980.
    • 1980-1841
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 80-3554Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Gypsy lifestyles / John B. McLaughlin.

    • Text
    • Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 80-4032Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Histoires d'escrocs / Julien Duteil.

    • Text
    • [Paris] : J.-C. Simoën, c1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 81-544Offsite
  • The sting man : inside Abscam / Robert W. Greene.

    • Text
    • New York : Dutton, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 81-1638|m(SASB)Offsite
  • Games criminals play : how you can profit by knowing them / Bud Allen and Diana Bosta.

    • Text
    • Susanville, Calif. : Rae John Publishers, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 84-2596|m(SASB)Offsite
  • Fraud : the amazing career of Dr. Savundra / Jon Connell and Douglas Sutherland.

    • Text
    • London : Hodder & Stoughton, c1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 84-2050Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Gambling scams : how they work, how to detect them, how to protect yourself / Darwin Ortiz ; photographs by Dennis Kan.

    • Text
    • New York : Dodd, Mead, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 84-3039Offsite
  • Captain Money and the golden girl : the J. David affair / by Donald C. Bauder.

    • Text
    • San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 85-2247|m(SASB)Offsite
  • Famous financial fiascos / by John Train ; illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan ; preface by C. Northcote Parkinson.

    • Text
    • New York : C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown Publishers, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 85-577Offsite
  • Vigarices & sacanices / Eurico Tiago.

    • Text
    • Coimbra : CENTELHA, [1985]
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLC 88-238Offsite
  • Norfleet: the actual experiences of a Texas rancher's 30,000-mile transcontinental chase after five confidence men.

    • Text
    • Fort Worth, Tex., W.F. White, 1924.
    • 1924
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 86-2385Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text SLE (Norfleet, J.F. Norfleet. 1924)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Cuentistas y cuenteros / Alberto E. Perillo.

    • Text
    • [Buenos Aires : s.n.], 1986
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 86-2669Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • 'Fraudsters' : six against the law / Michael Gilbert.

    • Text
    • London : Constable, 1986, c1987.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 88-4743Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Faking it in America : Barry Minkow and the great ZZZZ Best scam / Joe Domanick.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Contemporary Books, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 90-684Offsite
  • Die Spur führt nach Wolfenbüttel : Bericht über den grössten Kriminalprozess des 16. Jahrhunderts / von Heinz Grunow.

    • Text
    • Wolfenbüttel : H. Grunow, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFC 88-2742Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Deuteronomy Brown [microform] : a real estate transaction / by Charles B. Turrill.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco, Calif. : s.n.], 1888.
    • 1888
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZT-1997Offsite
  • An African millionaire : episodes in the life of the illustrious Colonel Clay / by Grant Allen.

    • Text
    • London : Grant Richards, 9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C., 1897.
    • 1897
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Fic (Allen, Grant. African millionaire)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Policing the hidden economy : the significance & control of fiddles / [Hidden Economy Group]

    • Text
    • [London] : Outer Circle Policy Unit, [1978]
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JBX F-150Offsite
  • The confident tricksters / edited by Colin Rose.

    • Text
    • Great Missenden : Topaz Books, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 89-4092Offsite
  • Człowiek do złotych interesów / Roman Buczek.

    • Text
    • Warszawa : Rój, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *QR 92-4613Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The swindler detected, or, Cautions to the public [microform] : containing a minute account of the various frauds and impositions practised on the honest and industrious tradesmen of this metropolis : the stories related in this tract are collected from absolute facts that have transpired within the last eighteen months : addressed to a certain alderman.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for the editor and sold by G. Kearsly, and M. Follingsby, 1781.
    • 1781
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Z-6232 no. 1 [Microfilm]Offsite
  • Copie de la lettre écrite par le ministre de la justice, faisant les fonctions par interim du ministre de l'intérieur, aux administrateurs des départmens : Paris, le février 1793, l'an second de la république.

    • Text
    • [France : s.n., 1793?]
    • 1793
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KVR 10036Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Hoaxes and scams : a compendium of deceptions, ruses, and swindles / Carl Sifakis.

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    • [New York] : Facts on File, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 93-3140Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Drawing dead : a novel / by Pete Hautman.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 93-13664Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Le voile arraché : l'autre visage de l'Islam / Abd al-Rahmâne al-Djawbarî ; traduction intégrale sur les manuscrits originaux par René R. Khawam.

    • Text
    • Paris : Phébus, 1979-c1980.
    • 1979-1980
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFD 94-1620 v. 1Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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