Spotlight on the Card Sharp by Lawrence Scaife

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An instructive warning to those who must play for stakes. Interesting amusement for those who do not.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

This book is an explanation of the fundamental principles upon which all card sharping is based. Once the main ideas are thoroughly understood, it becomes a comparatively easy matter to detect any subterfuge no matter how intricate.

This book is nicely illustrated by Charles Remmers from photographs by the author. It contains a description of cheating at the popular Australian game of Two-Up which makes it unique.

ForewordSpotlight On The Card-SharpSlipping The CutBridging And False CuttingFalse ShufflingPalmingDealing From The Bottom Of The PackStackingDice Games And Two Up

1st edition 1933, 63 pages; PDF 31 pages.
word count: 11661 which is equivalent to 46 standard pages of text