The Big Con

Notes

A professor of linguistics who specialised in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers. They let him in on not simply their language, but their folkwrys 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.

Artist / Author	David Maurer
Publisher	Arrow
ISBN	978-0099409991
Reference	P3682
Date	2000
Type	Publication

Keywords

1940s America argot confidence criminal danger greed jargon law legal lingo linguistics money swindler

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