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Dec 18, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Dean Jobb
“If there is one thing more than another of which the average man likes to read the details,” the Chicago Tribune once noted, “that thing is a first-class murder with the goriest of trimmings.”The Tribune’s observation could have been made yesterday—or at any point in the last decade. In fact, it was published more than 140 years ago, in November 1880, proving that our insatiable appetite for crime stories is nothing new.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
nationalpost.com | Dean Jobb
Meet Leo Koretz, a Jazz Age fraudster whose audacious schemes made Charles Ponzi look like a piker • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentFrancis Hiltz, the owner of a Halifax tailor shop, was repairing the lining of a suit jacket on a November day in 1924 when he glanced at the manufacturer’s label.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thesudburystar.com | Dean Jobb
Meet Leo Koretz, a Jazz Age fraudster whose audacious schemes made Charles Ponzi look like a pikerLeo Koretz with Cook County State’s Attorney Robert Crowe after he was brought back to Chicago to face charges of theft and running a confidence game. (Author Collection)Article contentFrancis Hiltz, the owner of a Halifax tailor shop, was repairing the lining of a suit jacket on a November day in 1924 when he glanced at the manufacturer’s label.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Dean Jobb
The big, balding man who visited Washington socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean in March of 1932 claimed he could solve a shocking, mysterious crime that was making headlines around the world. Gaston Means, a fifty-three-year-old former detective who had served time in federal prison for fraud, told McLean he knew who had snatched the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, from the couple’s New Jersey home.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Dean Jobb
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10:46 hrs.
ISBN 9781668641118. $27.99.
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Narrator Mike Chamberlain provides a lively reading of Jobb’s (
The Case of Murderous Dr. Cream) true crime about the infamous Arthur Barry, a skilled Jazz Age jewel thief known for his genteel manners. Barry, who came from an Irish working-class family in Worcester, MA, began in his criminal ways as a teen.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
themobiworld.com | Dean Jobb
A twisted serial killer apparently "confessed" to being in the seconds before his death from being hanged. In the brief moments between the noose being tied around his neck and the lever being pulled, it is claimed Dr Thomas Neill Cream made a gallows confession in 1892 - just four years after the Ripper's killing spree ended.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
express.co.uk | Jon Austin |Dean Jobb
This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Thomas Neill Cream in the mid-1870s, when he was a medical student at Montreal’s McGill University. (Image: McCord Museum)A twisted serial killer apparently "confessed" to being Jack the Ripper in the seconds before his death from being hanged.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Dean Jobb |A Gentleman
Life magazine hailed him as “the greatest jewel thief who ever lived.”In Jazz Age New York City, Arthur Barry hobnobbed with millionaires and celebrities as he planned his heists. He befriended Harry Houdini and led the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, on a late-night tour of Manhattan speakeasies. He raided the mansions of the elite and scooped up diamonds, pearls, and other precious gems worth tens of millions.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Dean Jobb
An American correspondent who covered the rise of Nazi Germany considered the Chicago Tribune’s Berlin bureau chief to be nothing less than “Hitler’s greatest enemy.” William L. Shirer, who reported from the German capital on the eve of World War Two, was also in awe of this journalist’s courage and resourcefulness. “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scenes,” the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich would later note.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
49thshelf.com | Waubgeshig Rice |Dean Jobb |Carley Fortune |Michel Tremblay
Seasonal pop quiz: what do you get when you gather more than a dozen independent booksellers from across the country in one place? If you answered “the makings for a heck of a party” you’re not wrong (nobody parties like book people. Nobody.), but in this case, what you get is a bonanza of summer reading suggestions. That’s right, the booksellers of the Shelf Talkers panel have weighed in with their choices for summer reading. Want something light? We’ve got that. Something heavy? That too.
