Related Clues:

• Bit of deception
• Nefarious plan
• Deceptive tactic
• Carefully laid plan
• It's a trick
• Wheel and deal
• Be scheming
• Cunning trick
• Crafty scheme
• Artful stratagem
• Basis for a whodunit
• Tricky plan
• Conspiracy theorist's subject
• Con man's device
• Cabal's plan