All grafts laid bare being a complete exposure of all gambling, graft and confidence games with stories illustrating the methods employed by the different operators.
This is a wonderful book on all things cheating at gambling (sleight-of-hand and machinery), various confidence games and other scams and crooked methods with several revealing illustrations.
- PREFACE
- ENDORSEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- EPITOME
- CHAPTER I Exposé of Gambling Devices
- CHAPTER II Exposé of Gambling Devices (Continued)
- The Mechanical Hold-out Poker Table
- The Revolving Poker Table
- The Sleeve Hold-out
- The Bug Hold-out
- The Vest Hold-out
- Cold Decks
- Strippers
- Expert Shuffling and False Cutting
- Luminous Cards
- The Looking Glass
- Marked Cards
- Stamped Cards
- Pricked Cards
- Signing Up Hands
- Bottom Dealing
- Second Dealing
- Pinochle
- The Solo Game
- Casino
- Coon Can
- Domino Whist
- Keno and Low Ball
- Chinese Lottery, Mexican Lottery, Louisiana Lottery and Policy Shops
- Whip and Fish Games
- CHAPTER III The Foot Race Confidence Game
- The "Fleecing" of Mr. Joyce by the Mabrey Gang
- CHAPTER IV The "Fleecing" of Mr. Joyce (Continued)
- CHAPTER V Salary Loan Sharks
- CHAPTER VI Fortune Tellers
- CHAPTER VII Clairvoyants
- CHAPTER VIII The Twenty Dollar Counterfeiting Confidence Game
- CHAPTER IX The Twenty Dollar Counterfeiting Confidence Game (Continued)
- CHAPTER X The Slot Machine
- CHAPTER XI Stock Exchanges and Bucket Shops
- CHAPTER XII The Pool Room Evil
- CHAPTER XIII The "Tip" Confidence Game
- CHAPTER XIV The "Tip" Confidence Game (Continued)
- CHAPTER XV Sluff Game
- CHAPTER XVI The Race Horse Turf Exchanges
- CHAPTER XVII Race Horse Touts
- CHAPTER XVIII The Wire Tapping Confidence Game
- CHAPTER XIX The Matching Dollar Confidence Game
- CHAPTER XX The Shell and Three Card Monte Games
- CHAPTER XXI The Lock, Pocket Knife and Purse Confidence Games
- CHAPTER XXII The Gold Brick Confidence Game
1st edition 1914, 313 pages; PDF 109 pages.
word count: 49323 which is equivalent to 197 standard pages of text