> And one of the most competent types of characters in
crime fiction must be
> the con artist, because he, or she, always has to be
smarter than everyone
> else. Anyone out there who can suggest some good
hardboiled books about con
> artists?
You probably already know this Kev, but the con artist
(there's another
word which, thanks a liquid lunch, eludes me at the moment)
is a
recurring character in Jim Thompson's stuff.
ED
BTW I get the digest---anyone who wants to read it twice
should excuse
me for cutting it.
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