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.

• 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