A Grand Exposé of the Science of Gambling
by unknown

Containing a complete disclosure of the secrets of the art, as practiced by professional gamblers.

The author only identifies themselves as 'An Adept'. It covers a wide range of gambling scams, and crooked card games, including card table artifice. The information is relevant today and describes the multivarious ways marks are separated from their money.

Table of Contents

• The Game of Faro
  • Side Strippers
  • The Capper
  • The Chopping Deal
  • Expose of the Dealing Box
  • The Screw Box
  • Sanding the Cards
  • Rakes
  • Hollows and Rounds
  • Fifty Threes
  • The Cat Hop
  • Snaking Cards
  • How Cards are Snaked
• Roulette
• Chucker Luck, or Sweat Cloth
• Spout
• Poker, or Bluff
  • Cold Decks
• Stamped Cards
• Vingt-un, or Twenty-one
• Seven Up, or All Fours
  • The Long Hand of Seven Up
• Three Card Monte
• Race Courses, Mysteries of the Turf, &c
• The Arm Strap
• The Convex, or Dog eat Dog
• The Broker’s Game
• The Bogus Check Game
• The Five Aces
• The Ring Game
• Dropping the Pigeon, or Heeling
• Watch Stuffing
• Three Card Monte on the Ohio River
• The Game of Euchre or Diamond Cut Diamond
• The Five Aces and the Nigger Stealer
• Three Card Monte on Lake Ontario and the Canada Counterfeiter
• The Strap Game on Lake Champlain. Betting for Oxen
  • A Description of the Strap Game, and how it is Played
• The Ball and Safe Game in Cleveland
• The Game of French Monte in Chicago
• The Strap Game in Memphis
• Confidence Women
• The Thimble Game
• Mock Auctions, or Peter Funks

1st edition 1860, 194 pages; PDF 61 pages.
word count: 32635 which is equivalent to 130 standard pages of text