God Save the Mark

by Donald E. Westlake

the professional workers of short cons don’t usually get caught.

I am only—but it is enough—gullible. I find it impossible to believe that anyone could lie to another human being to his face.

She did have a large place, as she’d said, but even a large apartment is a relatively small area when two people are living in it,

‘A man with half a million bucks can’t afford friends.’