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

Rogue Wounds

Daniel Mason

We Buy Broken Gold

Clancy Martin

A Fish Tale

David Samuels

Map

Land Grabs

Miscellany

Oscar Wilde gets swindled.

Christopher Marlowe, counterfeiter.

The War of the Worlds.

That total fake.

Potemkin villages.

Defending your life in ancient Athens.

Joseph Smith’s legal tender.

The Romanov imposter.

Little white lies.

The hard drive has been compromised.

How to feign illness and escape service.

Sign of the times.

Are you a jerk, or not a jerk?

Sexual mimicry among cuttlefish.

That’s a real wooden nutmeg.

Standing before the jury.

Voices In Time

It’s All a Swindle

c. 1885 | London

The Common Enemy

1869 | Quincy, MA

False Reports

c. 1828 | Edenton, NC

Papal Fallibility

1520 | Wittenberg

Lie, Cheat, and Steal

1832 | Prairie du Chien

Dead Alive

2012 | Manila

Warming Up the Mark

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

The Great American Humbug

1865 | New York City

Life Imitates Life

1889 | London

Twisting the Plot

1975 | Samois-sur-Seine

The Lady Has Some Fun

1914 | England

Funhouse Mirror

1973 | New York City

Whitewashing the Fence

1844 | St. Petersburg, MO

Standard Operating Procedure

1666 | Paris

Grasping at Straws

c. 108 | Nicopolis

Notes on Deceit

1678 | Paris

Finding Your Calling

1919 | Boston

Public Versus Private

1790 | New York City

Uncrossing the Stars

1864 | Isle of Wight

The Master Man

1922 | Zenith

To Believe or to Assume

395 | Hippo

Dressing the Part

1380 | London

Second Acts

2009 | Butner Prison, NC

Reassuring Words

1998 | Houston

Heaven of Invention

1599 | London

Artful Dodging

1868 | New York City

Competitive Edges

c. 1870 | Cleveland

The Promise of Dawn

1780 | Palgrave

Teaching Distrust

1857 | Mississippi River

Heavy Hands

1906 | New York City

Senate Seats for Sale

2008 | Chicago

Letter Scam

c. 1797 | Bicêtre

Losing Big

1917 | South Dakota

Charts and Graphs

Good Book, Bad Deeds

Getaway Vehicles

Patent Medicines

Faking It

Falsely Attributed

Counterfeits

Rogues Gallery

Literary Hoaxes

But It’s Science

Contributors

Conversations

Al-Hamadhānī & Harry Houdini

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