Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford - con man stories
Posted: March 23rd, 2023, 12:10 pm
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford is a fictional con artist created by writer George Randolph Chester for a series of stories that first appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine. A book titled Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford: A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer was published in 1907.
(Wikipedia)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37010
28 chapters, 87,000-ish words, or about 9.5-10 hours of finished recording.
(This is referenced in a nonfiction piece I'm currently editing. Talking about how even con men know how to be kind and please people: "Well, why not be as shrewd as the crook, then, yourself, to discover what will please and satisfy the friend you love? Get-rich-quick Wallingford had a perverted heart, ’tis true, but it had taken its degree in the Art of Pleasing.")
(Wikipedia)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37010
28 chapters, 87,000-ish words, or about 9.5-10 hours of finished recording.
(This is referenced in a nonfiction piece I'm currently editing. Talking about how even con men know how to be kind and please people: "Well, why not be as shrewd as the crook, then, yourself, to discover what will please and satisfy the friend you love? Get-rich-quick Wallingford had a perverted heart, ’tis true, but it had taken its degree in the Art of Pleasing.")