Harry Houdini - Right Way to do Wrong

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This is a fun book to read. Great stories about pickpockets, burglars, bunco men, thiefs, and others. Houdini collected interesting cases talking to detectives, and police chiefs. The book describes the methods used to scam innocent victims. Some of these schemes are still popular, which shows again, that one can learn a lot from the past.

published 1906 by Harry Houdini, Boston MA; later reprinted by Gamblers Book Club, Las Vegas; 96 pages

Table of Contents

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1. Preface
2. Shot One - Income of a Criminal
3. Shot Two - Professional Burglary
4. Shot Three - Difficulties of Burglary
5. Shot Four - Burglars's Superstitions
6. Shot Five - Thieves and Their Tricks
7. Shot Six - The Aristocrat of Thievery
8. Shot Seven - Pickpockets at Work
9. Shot Eight - Beggars and Dead Beats
10. Shot Nine - Begging Letter Swindlers
11. Shot Ten - Tricks of Bunco Men
12. Shot Eleven - The Game of Wits
13. Shot Twelve - Fake Fake Fake!!!
14. Shot Thirteen - Bogus Treasures
15. Shot Fourteen - Famous Swindles
16. Shot Fifteen - The Fair Criminal
17. Shot Sixteen - The "Brace" Game
18. Shot Seventeen - Cheating Uncle Sam
19. Shot Eighteen - Humbugs
20. Shot Nineteen - Houdini
21. Shot Twenty - Conclusion