Speaker’s Book:
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding
Old Mother Mandelbaum & her School for Thieves
Online:
Print:
- The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America, by Albert Fried
- Women Criminals 2 Volume Set: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues, by Vickie Jensen
- Why Crime Does Not Pay, by Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke (available online at Archive.org)
The Rube Act: Canada Bill Jones & the Three Card Monte
Online:
- A Pair of Knaves – Old and Sold
Print:
- Notes on Three Card Monte, by Whit Haydn
- A Treatise on the Sucker Effects of Three Card Monte, by John Scarne
- Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, by George H. Devol available online at archive.org – [TW: offensive language about race and gender.]
- The Great Pictorial History of World Crime Vol 2, by Jay Robert Nash
The Beautician from Hell: Madame Rachel’s Cosmetic Con
Online:
- (Audio) Madame Rachel of Bond Street – Talk by Helen Rappaport – The National Archives
- Arthur Lloyd’s ‘Mrs. Mary Plucker Sparrowtail or Beautiful For Ever’ – The Music Hall and Theater History Website
- 10 Exceptionally Clever Female Con Artists – Mental Floss
- Beautiful Forever – The Life of Madame Rachel – Scandalous Women
- Victorian Con Artist Madame Rachel: Fortune from Fake Beauty Products – Express
- Portrait of Madame Rachel (Sarah Rachel Russell) (died 1880), Criminal and Con Artist – National Portrait Gallery
Print:
- Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street – Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer, by Helen Rappaport
- Scandalous Ladies (Wicked Women Vol. 3), by Anna Meyers
- The extraordinary life & trial of Madame Rachel at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London : on the 22 23, 24 & 25, September, 1868 (Online at Archive.org)
- Remarkable Rogues: The Career of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America, by Charles Kingston (available online at Project Gutenberg)
Leonardo, Machiavelli & the Plot to Steal the Arno River
Print:
Stealing Portugal…from Itself? The Criminal Cunning of Artur Virgilio Alves Reis
Online:
Print:
- The Man Who Stole Portugal, by Murray Teigh Bloom
Greed, Misdirection & Forgeries: How Tino De Angelis scammed Wall Street
Online:
- How The Salad Oil Swindle Of 1963 Nearly Crippled The NYSE – Business Insider
- Article about the scams of Tino de Angelis – The Public “I”
- Salad Oil Swindle Cost Wall Street $150 Million! (article from Saturday Evening Post on April 25, 1964) – Norman C Miller
Print:
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The Great Salad Oil Swindle, by Norman C Miller
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Lilia Gutnik, Christian Cagigal, Lindsay Lelivelt, Richard Cody Nichols, Chris Carrico, and John J. Kaufman. Thank you!
