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.

Oscar Wilde gets swindled.

Sign of the times.

Potemkin villages.

The hard drive has been compromised.

Are you a jerk, or not a jerk?

That total fake.

Sexual mimicry among cuttlefish.

Standing before the jury.

How to feign illness and escape service.

That’s a real wooden nutmeg.

The War of the Worlds.

Little white lies.

Christopher Marlowe, counterfeiter.

Defending your life in ancient Athens.

Joseph Smith’s legal tender.

Voices In Time

The Promise of Dawn

1780 | Palgrave

The Great American Humbug

1865 | New York City

Heaven of Invention

1599 | London

The Lady Has Some Fun

1914 | England

Public Versus Private

1790 | New York City

Losing Big

1917 | South Dakota

Notes on Deceit

1678 | Paris

Competitive Edges

c. 1870 | Cleveland

Grasping at Straws

c. 108 | Nicopolis

Whitewashing the Fence

1844 | St. Petersburg, MO

The Common Enemy

1869 | Quincy, MA

To Believe or to Assume

395 | Hippo

Funhouse Mirror

1973 | New York City

Lie, Cheat, and Steal

1832 | Prairie du Chien

Senate Seats for Sale

2008 | Chicago

The Master Man

1922 | Zenith

Dressing the Part

1380 | London

Heavy Hands

1906 | New York City

False Reports

c. 1828 | Edenton, NC

It’s All a Swindle

c. 1885 | London

Warming Up the Mark

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Life Imitates Life

1889 | London

Twisting the Plot

1975 | Samois-sur-Seine

Second Acts

2009 | Butner Prison, NC

Artful Dodging

1868 | New York City

Teaching Distrust

1857 | Mississippi River

Uncrossing the Stars

1864 | Isle of Wight

Papal Fallibility

1520 | Wittenberg

Standard Operating Procedure

1666 | Paris

Dead Alive

2012 | Manila

Letter Scam

c. 1797 | Bicêtre

Finding Your Calling

1919 | Boston

Reassuring Words

1998 | Houston

Charts and Graphs

Faking It

But It’s Science

Good Book, Bad Deeds

Patent Medicines

Rogues Gallery

Falsely Attributed

Counterfeits

Literary Hoaxes

Getaway Vehicles

Contributors

Conversations

Al-Hamadhānī & Harry Houdini

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