Found 104 results for "Swindlers and swindling in fiction"
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins, William Collins
THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
'THAT nigger going down the street,'said Dr Hasselbacher standing in the Wonder Bar, 'he reminds me of you, Mr Wormold.'
The Confidence Man
by Herman Melville
AT sunrise on a first of April,* there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca,* a man in creamcolours, a...
The Partner
by John Grisham
THEY FOUND HIM in Ponta Pora, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay, in a land still known as the ...
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
by Jeffrey Archer
MAKING A MILLION legally has always been difficult.
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathise with the Chuzzlewit Family without ...
The Bride of Lammermoor
by Sir Walter Scott
FEW have been in my secret while I was compiling these narratives, nor is it probable that they will ever become public ...
Nightmare alley
by William Lindsay Gresham
THE LIGHT ... IF HE COULD ONLY MAKE IT TO THE LIGHT . . .
Золотой телёнок
by Илья Арнольдович Ильф, Евгений Петрович Петров
ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ От авторов Обычно по поводу нашего обобществленного литературного хозяйства к нам обращаются с вопросами в...
Addie Pray
by Joe David Brown
They say my mama, Miss Essie Mae Loggins, was the wildest girl in Marengo County, Alabama.
