Snake oil
Sadler, Fenton2016
Book
Gambler Jack Morton is persuaded to invest his winnings in buying the wagon and stock of a snake oil conman, and so reinvents himself as Professor Cornelius Murgatroyd's, purveyor of a miraculous cure for rheumatism, travelling across the West making a precarious living from the gullibility of others.
Main title:
Snake oil / Fenton Sadler.
Author:
Sadler, Fenton, author
Work:
Imprint:
Ramsbury : The Crowood Press, 2016.Ramsbury : The Crowood Press, 2016.
Collation:
160 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN:
9780719820625 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2379529