Sting Shift: The Street-Smart Cop's Handbook of Cons and Swindles

Littleton, CO: Street-Smart Communications, 1989, Softcover, Second printing, 6 x 9inches, 128 pp (includes Resources, Glossary, Selected Reading, Afterthoughts and About the Authors). Red covers with black titles are clean and lightly worn. Pages are clean, no names or markings, not Ex-Library with some B&W illustrations (see images). Book condition: VG. The book provides general background information on con games, swindles and other forms of cheating. The swindles described are based on documented cases from newspaper articles, magazines, books, interviews, police files and first-hand investigative work. There are descriptions of various types of cons, including: pickpockets; UFOs, Big Foot and other hoaxes; fortune tellers, faith-healers, gypsy cons and scams, carny operators; cults and crimes in the world of Satanism". Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a new box.