Right Way To Do Wrong by Harry Houdini

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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

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PrefaceShot One – Income of a CriminalShot Two – Professional BurglaryShot Three – Difficulties of BurglaryShot Four – Burglars’s SuperstitionsShot Five – Thieves and Their TricksShot Six – The Aristocrat of ThieveryShot Seven – Pickpockets at WorkShot Eight – Beggars and Dead BeatsShot Nine – Begging Letter SwindlersShot Ten – Tricks of Bunco MenShot Eleven – The Game of WitsShot Twelve – Fake Fake Fake!!!Shot Thirteen – Bogus TreasuresShot Fourteen – Famous SwindlesShot Fifteen – The Fair CriminalShot Sixteen – The “Brace” GameShot Seventeen – Cheating Uncle SamShot Eighteen – HumbugsShot Nineteen – HoudiniShot Twenty – Conclusion