Before he became the smooth promoter J. Rufus Wallingford, he was plump young Jonathan Reuben Wix, shooting dice in a small-town café. A black-eyed sharper teaches him about easy money, and the boy proves a quick study: bucket-shops, rigged horse races and green-goods tricks follow as he learns to fleece clever men.
A comic con-man origin story from the creator of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. Download the free EPUB.