Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction books

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville

The work is a satirical novel set on a Mississippi steamboat, where Herman Melville introduces a mute…

Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter is a nineteenth‑century American tale of upward…

Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper

Francisco de Quevedo

The Flirt

Booth Tarkington

The Market-Place

Harold Frederic

Bound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Money for nothing

P. G. Wodehouse

Young Wallingford

George Randolph Chester

A Cigarette Clew; Or, "Salted" For a Million

Nicholas Carter

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer

George Randolph Chester

A Prince of Swindlers

Guy Boothby

The Erie Train Boy

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Rockhaven

Charles Clark Munn

Luke Walton

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The City of Numbered Days

Francis Lynde

Be young again!

Murray Leinster

Innocent at Large

Anderson, Poul; Anderson, Karen

A Little Journey

Ray Bradbury

The Lady in the Car

William Le Queux

Birds of a Feather

Robert Silverberg

Grifters' Asteroid

H. L. Gold

Skin Game

Charles E. Fritch