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  • The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

    The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

    by Dean Jobb ...
    Winner of the CrimeCon Clue Award for True Crime Book of the Year“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incredibly, at the time the words of the world’s most famous fictional detective appeared in print in the Strand Magazine, a real-life Canadian doctor was stalking and murdering women in London ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Empire Of Deception

    From Chicago to Nova Scotia — The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

    by Dean Jobb ...
    In the tradition of bestselling books like The Devil in the White City and The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, Empire of Deception combines investigative journalism and captivating storytelling to examine one of the greatest con men of the twentieth centuryIt was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it more mad than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Gentleman and a Thief

    The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

    by Dean Jobb ...
    National BestsellerGlobe and Mail Bestseller ListToronto Star Bestseller ListFinalist C****hicago Writers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year AwardAn Amazon.com Editors’ Pick as a Best Book, Best History & Best BiographyCatch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby in this Jazz Age tale of a master jewel thief who charmed ... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Acadian Saga

    A People's Story of Exile and Triumph, New & Expanded Edition

    by Dean Jobb ...
    The Deportation of the Acadians—one of the darkest events in Canadian history—is replete with the drama of war, politics, and untold human suffering. Starting in 1755, thousands of French-speaking settlers were expelled from their homes on Canada's East Coast by a tyrannical British governor with the support of New England troops. While many Acadians returned from exile to establish new ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daring, Devious and Deadly

    True Tales of Crime and Justice from Nova Scotia’s Past

    by Dean Jobb ...
    Welcome to a rogues’ gallery of murderers and pirates, a pair of brazen bank robbers and a fraud artist who fooled Halifax’s elite. A supporting cast includes a wise-cracking Cape Breton judge, legendary journalist-turned-politician Joseph Howe, circus showman P.T. Barnum and future prime minister John Thompson. Daring, Devious & Deadly is a collection of fifteen true tales of crime and justice ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Madness, Mayhem and Murder

    More True Tales of Crime and Justice from Nova Scotia's Past 

    by Dean Jobb ...
    Meet the larger-than-life characters from Nova Scotia’s past who broke the law as well as the mold. Jack Randell, skipper of a Lunenburg-based rum-running schooner, sparked a diplomatic row in 1929 when he tried to outrun the United States Coast Guard. Henry More Smith was a nineteenth-century thief so brazen that he swiped law books from the office of a Halifax judge, then returned them to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Empire of Deception

    The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

    by Dean Jobb ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    A rollicking story of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man who kept a Ponzi scheme alive perhaps for longer than anyone else in history.It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings ... Read more

    Was $35.99 CAD Now $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Gentleman and a Thief

    The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

    by Dean Jobb ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby in this Jazz Age tale of a master jewel thief who charmed celebrities and hobnobbed with New York’s millionaires while planning audacious heists to relieve them of their treasures.A skilled con artist and perhaps one of the most charming, audacious burglars in history, Arthur Barry slipped in and out of the bedrooms of New York’s wealthiest residents, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

    The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

    by Dean Jobb ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    Winner of the CrimeCon Clue Award for True Crime Book of the Year“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incredibly, at the time the words of the world’s most famous fictional detective appeared in print in the Strand Magazine, a real-life Canadian doctor was stalking and murdering women in London ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Wild Trees

    A Story of Passion and Daring

    Narrated by Richard Preston ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 41 min

    Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained -- the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. The biggest redwoods are over a thousand years old, rising more than thirty-five stories in what's left of the once-vast ancient redwood forest. Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    The Science of Murder

    The Forensics of Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Helen Langford ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novelsAgatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one—or, more commonly, several—dead bodies. And the cause of death, the motives behind violent crimes, the clues that inevitably are left behind, and the people who put the pieces together to solve the mystery invite the reader to ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    American Sherlock

    Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

    Narrated by Kate Winkler Dawson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on ... Read more

    $27.00 CAD