first-season episode of Maverick (January 1958), "Diamond in the Rough", was based on the hoax. The incident was also dramatized as "The Great Diamond Mountain" on the television series The Great Adventure in 1963. Arnold was played by John Fiedler, Slack by John McGiver, Ralston by Barry Sullivan, and con-breaking geologist Clarence King by J. D. Cannon. A mystery, The Dangerous Angel Affair by Clarence Budington Kelland, revolves around the hoax. Footnotes See also Caleb Lyon, Idaho governor who also started a diamond hoax. References Robert Greene and Joost Elffers, The 48 Laws of Power (references this scam in Law 21 Play a Sucker to catch a Sucker - Seem Dumber than your Mark) King, Clarence. 1872. Copy of official letter, addressed November 11, 1872, to the Board of Directors of the San Francisco and New York Mining and Commercial Company ... discovering the new diamond fields to be a fraud." San Francisco and New York Mining and Commercial Company. [San Francisco? 1872]. 12 pages. 24 cm. USGS Library. Dan Plazak, A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top (contains a chapter on the great diamond hoax) External links Photographs relating to the great diamond hoax 1872 in the United States Fraud in the United States Crimes in California Diamond