After years as a professional gambler, John Philip Quinn turned reformer and wrote this exposé. He tells his own story, sketches gambling across history and around the world from ancient Greece to Monte Carlo, and then lays bare the tricks of the trade: marked cards, rigged faro boxes, three-card monte, and the confidence men who worked the railway cars.
A vivid, anecdote-packed look at the American underworld of the 1880s, written to warn its readers away. Download the free EPUB.