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“david maurer”

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  • The Big Con

    The Story of the Confidence Man

    by David Maurer ...
    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 ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Whiz Mob

    A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern

    by David W. Maurer ...
    Whiz Mob is David W. Maurer's classic study of the world of pickpockets. Similar to his best-known work, The Big Con, in Whiz Mob Maurer explains the colorful expressions and vivid words used by pickpockets and uses them to provide a window into the life and experiences of the professional criminal. Although he is quick to point out that he never had any actual experience on the racket, Maurer ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Kentucky Moonshine

    by David W. Maurer ...
    A concise, lively history of how the Bluegrass State became famous for illicit distilleries, by the author of The Big Con.When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky.Once ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phantom of the Beach

    by David L. Maurer ...
    Phantom of the BeachBy: David L. MaurerEscaping from the world closing in around him, Randy drives away from his family in Boston up the coast of Maine in search of answers. A mysterious woman appears on the beach and compels him into a surreal world of sexual exploitation that he’s only read about in detective novels. How can he, an accountant from Boston, rescue this beautiful young woman? Why ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Kentucky Moonshine

    by David W. Maurer ...
    When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky. Here they used cold limestone spring water to make bourbon and found that corn produced even better yields of whiskey than rye. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD