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A shabby barroom storyteller explains how he was promised a fortune by an unread author—and why he never received it.
Two exhausted adventurers follow a stolen treasure map into a tropical forest, certain that murder has put a fortune within reach.
Over whisky, a taxidermist boasts that preserving nature is only the beginning of his art—and explains how easily collectors can be fooled.
Three robbers target an isolated former sea captain whose house contains bottles that answer when he speaks.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A detective recognizes an old friend as a murderer, but an unpaid debt makes arrest more complicated than duty should allow.
A traveling swindler recruits a mountain hog thief, only to discover that even a comic partnership has its own ethics.
Jeff Peters explains the ethics of graft after teaming up with a burglar and a ruined financier in a town with one tempting bank.
Two confidence men corner a flood-bound town, but their monopoly faces an unexpected challenge from inside the partnership.
After a daring train robbery, two partners must decide who gets the only horse capable of carrying them away.
A prejudiced anthropologist and his assistant discover that an alien village possesses a rare medicine with extraordinary healing powers.
