The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, by George de la Tour, c. 1635. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Swindle & Fraud

Volume VIII, Number 2 | spring 2015

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Paper Moons

Lewis H. Lapham

A Fish Tale

David Samuels

Rogue Wounds

Daniel Mason

We Buy Broken Gold

Clancy Martin

Map

Land Grabs

Miscellany

The Romanov imposter.

Sign of the times.

Little white lies.

Potemkin villages.

Joseph Smith’s legal tender.

Christopher Marlowe, counterfeiter.

Sexual mimicry among cuttlefish.

The War of the Worlds.

Defending your life in ancient Athens.

Are you a jerk, or not a jerk?

Oscar Wilde gets swindled.

That’s a real wooden nutmeg.

That total fake.

Standing before the jury.

How to feign illness and escape service.

The hard drive has been compromised.

Voices In Time

Losing Big

1917 | South Dakota

Heavy Hands

1906 | New York City

Warming Up the Mark

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Dressing the Part

1380 | London

Papal Fallibility

1520 | Wittenberg

It’s All a Swindle

c. 1885 | London

Public Versus Private

1790 | New York City

Senate Seats for Sale

2008 | Chicago

Life Imitates Life

1889 | London

Whitewashing the Fence

1844 | St. Petersburg, MO

Funhouse Mirror

1973 | New York City

Competitive Edges

c. 1870 | Cleveland

Grasping at Straws

c. 108 | Nicopolis

Lie, Cheat, and Steal

1832 | Prairie du Chien

Reassuring Words

1998 | Houston

The Promise of Dawn

1780 | Palgrave

To Believe or to Assume

395 | Hippo

Notes on Deceit

1678 | Paris

The Great American Humbug

1865 | New York City

False Reports

c. 1828 | Edenton, NC

Standard Operating Procedure

1666 | Paris

Finding Your Calling

1919 | Boston

The Master Man

1922 | Zenith

The Lady Has Some Fun

1914 | England

Artful Dodging

1868 | New York City

Teaching Distrust

1857 | Mississippi River

Second Acts

2009 | Butner Prison, NC

Dead Alive

2012 | Manila

The Common Enemy

1869 | Quincy, MA

Uncrossing the Stars

1864 | Isle of Wight

Letter Scam

c. 1797 | Bicêtre

Heaven of Invention

1599 | London

Twisting the Plot

1975 | Samois-sur-Seine

Charts and Graphs

Getaway Vehicles

But It’s Science

Counterfeits

Rogues Gallery

Literary Hoaxes

Falsely Attributed

Good Book, Bad Deeds

Faking It

Patent Medicines

Contributors

Conversations

Al-Hamadhānī & Harry Houdini

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