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The Big Con During the first 30 years of the 20th century the USA was filled with non-violent but 1__________ (honest) men who travelled across the country stealing other people’s money. These 2__________ (crime) didn’t mug people, burgle houses or 3__________ (robbery) banks: they tricked people into giving them money in some of the most unusual, 4__________ (create) and surprising ways. In the 1930s university professor David Maurer began following these ‘conmen’ around the country, interviewing them at length, learning the tricks, the schemes and the language they used. When the results were 5__________ (publication) in 1940 in The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man, he had 6__________ (spend) many years working on the book. The book is full of exciting true accounts. It shows how far conmen would go to make their ‘marks’ – the victims of their tricks – believe their stories and feel 7__________ (confidence) that they were going to make lots of money. The book is 8__________ (write) in the language of the conmen, so it is both 9__________ (history) important and 10__________ (entertain).