The Confidence Man
Boats and boating, fiction
Steamboats
Mississippi, fiction
Fiction, satire
Swindlers and swindling
Criminals, fiction
Fiction, humorous
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, humorous, general
Classic Literature
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Humorous stories
American literature
Fiction, general
Large type books
Children's fiction
Fiction
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan' gentlem…
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