Maurer

[David A. Daniel]

>From Wiki, FWIW
"The Big Con [1]  is Maurer's most popular and perhaps most important book.
It was originally published in 1940 by Bobbs-Merrill. The source material
for it came from Maurer corresponding, interviewing, and informally chatting
with hundreds of underworld denizens during the 1930s. Among the interviewed
criminals were such figures as Joseph "The Yellow Kid" Weil, Charles
Gondorff and Limehouse Chappie. Maurer won the trust of hundreds of
grifters, who let him in on their language and their methods. The book
served as a source for the film The Sting."
DAD

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the movie THE STING was supposedly based on one of David Maurer's scholarly
books. Not sure how such a thing is possible, but that's the prevailing
wisdom.
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> I've also, belatedly, just discovered the existence of David W.
Maurer, who
> seems to have published extensively on American slang from the early
30s on.
> Know his work at all?  I've flagged it to look at whenever I next get
near a
> decent library, and ordered_The Big Con_, the only one of his books
going
> at a price inside my range.
>

Maurer published a number of interesting articles in_American Speech_,
available through JSTOR (and through subscription to the current version
in the ADS, I believe).

His books build on his research articles.
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