Trick Baby

Iceberg Slim

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781847674319
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847677716
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Trick Baby charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as a trump card in the tough game of the Con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks is the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survive.

With his partner Blue, an old hand who teaches him the tricks of the trade, White Folks rises to the top of his profession. The cons he pulls off get more and more lucrative and dangerous until one day they go too far...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Introduction
• Preface
• Chapter One: A Shakedown Squeeze By Dot The Cop
• Chapter Two: Copper Dot’s Sucker Ear
• Chapter Three: The Dummy Payoff
• Chapter Four: Flight To Jewtown
• Chapter Five: The Voice Of Satan Cons The Preacher
• Chapter Six: Tears For A Lost Drum
• Chapter Seven: The Big Cruel Windy
• Chapter Eight: White Lamb In The Black Jungle
• Chapter Nine: Flat-Joint Flimflam
• Chapter Ten: A Doll With A Lust For Dames
• Chapter Eleven: Conning In The Spring Tra La Tra La
• Chapter Twelve: Livin’ Swell Fats
• Chapter Thirteen: The Goddess
• Chapter Fourteen: The Torturer
• Chapter Fifteen: Buster Bang Bang
• Chapter Sixteen: Rocks For A Gorilla
• Chapter Seventeen: Mr Trick Bag
• Chapter Eighteen: The Haters
• Chapter Nineteen: The Confession
• Chapter Twenty: The Fractured Nude
• Chapter Twenty One: The Search
• Chapter Twenty Two: Sister Franklin Snares The Elusive Ear Of God
• Chapter Twenty Three: The Fleeting Years
• Chapter Twenty Four: Wedding Bells For A Slick Sucker
• Chapter Twenty Five: State Street Murder Cross
• Epilog
• Glossary
• 1: Torn From The Nest
• Copyright Page