Big con [Audiobook] download free by David W. Maurer
- Listen audiobook: Big con
- Author: David W. Maurer
- Release date: 1999/7/5
- Publisher: BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL PUBLISHING GROUP INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Crime and Thriller
- ISBN: 9780385495387
- Rating: 9.25 of 10
- Votes: 146
- Review by: Ben Atwell
- Review rating: 8.49 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/14
- Duration: 3H57M15S in 256 kbps (62.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC, Shorten, AU, WAV (compression ZIP, RAR, RPM, AZW4)
- Total pages original book: 314
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M37S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called 'a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.' 'Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and entertaining works of criminology ever written. A professor of linguistics who specialized in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers, who let him in on not simply their language but their folkways and the astonishingly complex and elaborate schemes whereby unsuspecting marks, hooked by their own greed and dishonesty, were 'taken off' - i.e. cheated-of thousands upon thousands of dollars. The Big Con is a treasure trove of American lingo (the write, the rag, the payoff, ropers, shills, the cold poke, the convincer, to put on the send) and indelible characters (Yellow Kid Weil, Barney the Patch, the Seldom Seen Kid, Limehouse Chappie, Larry the Lug). It served as the source for the Oscar-winning film The Sting.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Crime & Criminology, True Crime Biographies, True Crime Books
- Download servers: BitShare, Hotfile, FreakShare, OneDrive, Sync.com, Microsoft OneDrive, Drop.me, Uploaded, Dropbox, Torrent. Compressed in ZIP, RAR, RPM, AZW4
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.65 USD
- Dimensions: 140x210x18.29mm
- Weight: 272g
- Printed by: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Published in: New York, United States
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