Secrets of Gambling by Hugh Miller

This is a great book on the secrets of how to cheat with cards and dice at many popular games - a guide to dishonest gambling. It offers a good overview of the various methods from mechanical cheating methods to sleight of hand.

1st edition 1970, original 128 pages; PDF 82 pages.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Cheating at cards
Mechanical Methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks
Strippers: types of strippers, Vernon's "Bathroom Strippers"
Locaters: short, corner shorts, thick cards, long cards, ridge/breather crimps
Holdouts: Kepplinger type, bug, card index, magnetic cards, ring holdouts
Shiners
Confederates: signals, hand signals, other body signals, electronic communication
Card Handling
Palming: 3 top palms, gamblers flat palm, 3 bottom palms
False Shuffling: strip-out riffle shuffle, gamblers false shuffle, to retain a top stock, faro
False Cutting: a false cut, slip cut, Vernons "The Cold Deck Cut"
Crooked Dealing: seconds, bottoms
Miscellaneous Swindles: double lift peek, restoring a cut, top change, locaters, confederates
The Greatest Swindles
Dice: loads, caps, shaved dice, beveled dice, mis-spotted dice, magnets
Detecting Fake Dice
Crooked Dice Handling: 3 controls, blanket roll, switching
Find the Lady (three card Monte)
The Three Shell game
The Endless Belt (this is the chain loop swindle)
Elusive Aces: a brief discussion of mis-indexed gaff cards, for use in the three card Monte or other card-based scams
Roulette
Safe Bets: several mathematical and proposition type wagers
The Odds
Dice (odds)
Bingo (odds)
Blackjack (odds)
Poker (odds)
Postscript

word count: 23254 which is equivalent to 93 standard pages of text