The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil vs The Hit Charade: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Swindlers and swindling, True Crime, Biography & Memoir
The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil
Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters: welcome to the world of confidence men.You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his…
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The Hit Charade
Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and NSYNC and…
The verdict
- Readers rate The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil highest: The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil 4.0 · The Hit Charade 3.4.
- The Hit Charade has the widest readership — 133 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil | The Hit Charade | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (13) | 3.4 (133) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (12) | — |
Reception
| The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil | The Hit Charade | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 13 | 133 |
| Editions | 9 | 7 |
| Want to read | 122 | 271 |
| Reading it now | 2 | 23 |
| Written reviews | 3 | 19 |
| Pages | 297 | 320 |