con artistry theme
There is a character who plays an elaborate confidence trick of some sort on another character.
61 total · 13 choice · 36 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh2x14 | choice | Keith and Dr. Shankara, a mystic, tried to swindle the heiress Grace out of her fortune. Keith seduced and married Grace by convincing her he was not after her fortune and that they would move to Bolivia together. Then he faked his own death. In despair, she almost gave her entire fortune to the mystic so that she could have a few supernatural moments with Keith's ghost. |
| ahh2x16 | choice | The false medium Adelaide, who with the help of her reluctant partner in crime, Robert, scammed the parents of war dead by pretending to make contact with their fallen sons. |
| ahh3x24 | choice | Jarvis swindled little old ladies out of their life savings. |
| ahp3x02 | choice | Mr. Grimes fell victim to a version of the Baltimore Stockbroker postal scam. |
| ahp5x25 | choice | The story follows a trio of swindlers who hoodwinked the credulous residents of an Old West mining town into thinking one of them is the Devil incarnate as part of an elaborate ruse to make off with everyone's money. |
| ahp6x07 | choice | Pepe swindled the townspeople out of thousands of dollars by pretending to be his outlaw brother. |
| ahp7x29 | choice | The gist of the story is that a triage of hoodwinks scammed a scrupulous jeweler out of $12,600. |
| movie: Il bidone (1955) | choice | The story concerned a gang of Italian swindlers who used elaborate schemes to trick peasants into handing over their money. |
| tftc1989e4x04 | choice | The story concerns the illicit activities of Alison and Benjamin as they try to enrich themselves at the expense of their latest mark, the wealthy businessman Presco Chalmers. |
| tftc1989e4x11 | choice | The bigamist Vic tricked April and June into marrying him in a plot to steal their combined $2 billion inheritance. Vic also swindled the black jack playing old man in the casino. |