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

We Buy Broken Gold

Clancy Martin

Rogue Wounds

Daniel Mason

A Fish Tale

David Samuels

Map

Land Grabs

Miscellany

That’s a real wooden nutmeg.

Standing before the jury.

Little white lies.

Joseph Smith’s legal tender.

Sexual mimicry among cuttlefish.

Christopher Marlowe, counterfeiter.

Potemkin villages.

That total fake.

Are you a jerk, or not a jerk?

Oscar Wilde gets swindled.

The Romanov imposter.

Sign of the times.

The War of the Worlds.

Defending your life in ancient Athens.

How to feign illness and escape service.

The hard drive has been compromised.

Voices In Time

Life Imitates Life

1889 | London

Heavy Hands

1906 | New York City

Competitive Edges

c. 1870 | Cleveland

The Common Enemy

1869 | Quincy, MA

False Reports

c. 1828 | Edenton, NC

Public Versus Private

1790 | New York City

Lie, Cheat, and Steal

1832 | Prairie du Chien

Teaching Distrust

1857 | Mississippi River

Standard Operating Procedure

1666 | Paris

The Master Man

1922 | Zenith

Warming Up the Mark

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

The Promise of Dawn

1780 | Palgrave

Papal Fallibility

1520 | Wittenberg

Second Acts

2009 | Butner Prison, NC

Senate Seats for Sale

2008 | Chicago

Whitewashing the Fence

1844 | St. Petersburg, MO

Losing Big

1917 | South Dakota

Reassuring Words

1998 | Houston

Artful Dodging

1868 | New York City

To Believe or to Assume

395 | Hippo

Finding Your Calling

1919 | Boston

Heaven of Invention

1599 | London

Letter Scam

c. 1797 | Bicêtre

The Lady Has Some Fun

1914 | England

Twisting the Plot

1975 | Samois-sur-Seine

The Great American Humbug

1865 | New York City

Grasping at Straws

c. 108 | Nicopolis

It’s All a Swindle

c. 1885 | London

Uncrossing the Stars

1864 | Isle of Wight

Funhouse Mirror

1973 | New York City

Dead Alive

2012 | Manila

Dressing the Part

1380 | London

Notes on Deceit

1678 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Counterfeits

Patent Medicines

Falsely Attributed

Faking It

But It’s Science

Good Book, Bad Deeds

Rogues Gallery

Literary Hoaxes

Getaway Vehicles

Contributors

Conversations

Al-Hamadhānī & Harry Houdini

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