From: Jason Corley (corleyj@CHRONIC.LPL.ARIZONA.EDU)
Date: Wed Feb 17 1999 - 15:31:32 PST
Hi! I'm a law student at the University of Arizona. (aaaagh! chancery scenes erupt to mind!) I've been doing a paper on the history of mail fraud and I was interested to see in one history of the postal inspector's office, that Dickens published an expose of some of the more notorious English mail con artists. The author seemed to think it was in "Sketches By Boz", but the particular collection of the "Sketches" I've been able to find (on Project Gutenberg) doesn't appear to have the info in it. Can someone give me more specific information - like a title of the actual essay or a date, or alternate collections of the "Sketches" which might have this work? Thanks! Jason