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

Christopher Marlowe, counterfeiter.

The Romanov imposter.

The hard drive has been compromised.

Sexual mimicry among cuttlefish.

Sign of the times.

That total fake.

Are you a jerk, or not a jerk?

Standing before the jury.

The War of the Worlds.

Potemkin villages.

How to feign illness and escape service.

Defending your life in ancient Athens.

That’s a real wooden nutmeg.

Joseph Smith’s legal tender.

Oscar Wilde gets swindled.

Little white lies.

Voices In Time

The Common Enemy

1869 | Quincy, MA

Dead Alive

2012 | Manila

Twisting the Plot

1975 | Samois-sur-Seine

Competitive Edges

c. 1870 | Cleveland

Lie, Cheat, and Steal

1832 | Prairie du Chien

Papal Fallibility

1520 | Wittenberg

Artful Dodging

1868 | New York City

The Great American Humbug

1865 | New York City

Public Versus Private

1790 | New York City

To Believe or to Assume

395 | Hippo

Grasping at Straws

c. 108 | Nicopolis

Heaven of Invention

1599 | London

Warming Up the Mark

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Second Acts

2009 | Butner Prison, NC

The Promise of Dawn

1780 | Palgrave

The Master Man

1922 | Zenith

Standard Operating Procedure

1666 | Paris

False Reports

c. 1828 | Edenton, NC

Finding Your Calling

1919 | Boston

Letter Scam

c. 1797 | Bicêtre

Teaching Distrust

1857 | Mississippi River

Notes on Deceit

1678 | Paris

Dressing the Part

1380 | London

Losing Big

1917 | South Dakota

Uncrossing the Stars

1864 | Isle of Wight

Reassuring Words

1998 | Houston

It’s All a Swindle

c. 1885 | London

Whitewashing the Fence

1844 | St. Petersburg, MO

Funhouse Mirror

1973 | New York City

Life Imitates Life

1889 | London

Heavy Hands

1906 | New York City

The Lady Has Some Fun

1914 | England

Senate Seats for Sale

2008 | Chicago

Charts and Graphs

Counterfeits

Faking It

Falsely Attributed

Good Book, Bad Deeds

Rogues Gallery

But It’s Science

Literary Hoaxes

Getaway Vehicles

Patent Medicines

Contributors

Conversations

Al-Hamadhānī & Harry Houdini

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