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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

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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

It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million—upward of $400 million today—in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. This rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man on the town, then on the lam, is not only a rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it’s a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history. As Model Ts rumbled down Michigan Avenue, gang-war shootings announced Al Capone’s rise to underworld domination. As bedecked partygoers thronged to the Drake Hotel’s opulent banquet rooms, corrupt politicians held court in thriving speakeasies and the frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of his day, and Dean Jobb shows us that the American dream of easy wealth is a timeless commodity. ? “A rollicking tale that is one part The Sting, one part The Great Gatsby, and one part The Devil in the White City.” —Karen Abbott, author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy “Intoxicating and impressively researched, Jobb’s immorality tale provides a sobering post-Madoff reminder that those who think everything is theirs for the taking are destined to be taken.” —The New York Times Book Review “Captivating . . . A story that seems to be as American as it can get, and it’s told well.” —The Christian Science Monitor “A masterpiece of narrative set-up and vivid language . . . Jobb vividly . . . brings the Chicago of the 1880s and ‘90s to life.” —Chicago Tribune “This cautionary tale of 1920s greed and excess reads like it could happen today.” —The Associated Press

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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

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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

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The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

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“A tour de force of storytelling.” —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series “Jobb’s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read.” —The New York Times Book Review ”When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. “He has nerve and he has knowledge.” In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper. Structured around the doctor’s London murder trial in 1892, when he was finally brought to justice, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Dr. Cream to prey on vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help. Dean Jobb transports readers to the late nineteenth century as Scotland Yard traces Dr. Cream’s life through Canada and Chicago and finally to London, where new investigative tools called forensics were just coming into use, even as most police departments still scoffed at using science to solve crimes. But then, most investigators could hardly imagine that serial killers existed—the term was unknown. As the Chicago Tribune wrote, Dr. Cream’s crimes marked the emergence of a new breed of killer: one who operated without motive or remorse, who “murdered simply for the sake of murder.” For fans of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, all things Sherlock Holmes, or the podcast My Favorite Murder, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream is an unforgettable true crime story from a master of the genre.

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1643751670

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A Gentleman and a Thief

The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

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A Gentleman and a Thief

The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

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Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby meets Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief in this captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires—everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family—while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. “A master of narrative nonfiction. In this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jobb has found his own perfect jewel.” ―DAVID GRANN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon “An enthrallingly propulsive, unpredictably twisty biography of one of the most fascinating criminals of the 20th Century. I was hooked from the very first heist.” ―MICHAEL FINKEL, New York Times bestselling author of The Art Thief and The Stranger in the Woods A skilled con artist and one of the most successful burglars in history, Arthur Barry was adept at slipping in and out of bedrooms undetected, even when his victims slept only inches away. He became a folk hero, a gentleman bandit touted in the press as the “Prince of Thieves” and an “Aristocrat of Crime.” Think Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. In a span of seven years, Barry stole pearls, diamonds, and other precious gems worth almost $60 million today. Among his many victims were a Rockefeller, an heiress to the Woolworth Department Store fortune, an oil magnate, Wall Street bigwigs, a top executive of automotive giant General Motors, and a famous polo player. He befriended the Prince of Wales, Harry Houdini, and other luminaries. The rollicking, caper-filled rise and dramatic downfall of this master thief is a high-speed ride told in stylish prose. A Gentleman and a Thief is also a love story. Barry confessed to dozens of burglaries to protect his wife, Anna Blake (and was the prime suspect in scores of others on Long Island and across Westchester County). Sentenced to a twenty-five-year term, he staged a dramatic prison break—triggering a bloody inmates' riot—when Anna became seriously ill, so they could be together for a few more years as fugitives. Page-turning, escapist, and sparkling with insight into the allure of gemstones and our fascination with well-planned heists and the suave, clever criminals who pull them off, A Gentleman and a Thief is perfect for true crime fans who relish the exploits of con artists and high-class crooks.

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1643756117

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The Cajuns

A People's Story of Exile and Triumph

By: Dean W. Jobb

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The Cajuns

A People's Story of Exile and Triumph

By: Dean W. Jobb

One of the darkest events in Canadian history is replete with the drama of war, politics and untold human suffering. Starting in 1755, 10,000 people of French ancestry were expelled from their homes along Canada's east coast by a tyrannical British governor with the complicity of American sympathizers. While some Acadians returned home to try to evade capture and forge a living, others made their way to the Spanish colony of Louisiana, where they farmed and fished and began the vibrant "Cajun" culture that is renowned around the world. Award-winning author Dean Jobb has written a dramatic and compelling account of "Le grand derangement" -- the event that was immortalized in Longfellow's famous poem "Evangeline." Jobb brings a cast of characters to life so vividly that the reader is immediately captured by their stories. The richness of detail is remarkable. The quality of writing is cinematic. The year 2005 marks the 250th anniversary of the expulsion. This book is a bridge across the centuries for the descendants of a founding people of this nation, whose courage and resourcefulness still resonate in modern-day Acadie.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470739614

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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

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The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)

150+ Tales, Poems & Carols: Silent Night, Ring Out Wild Bells, The Gift of the Magi, The Mistletoe Bough, A Christmas Carol, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, The The Christmas Angel…

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The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)

150+ Tales, Poems & Carols: Silent Night, Ring Out Wild Bells, The Gift of the Magi, The Mistletoe Bough, A Christmas Carol, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, The The Christmas Angel…

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary Freeman) Little Girl's Christmas (Winnifred Lincoln) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) Brothers Grimm: The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White Hans Christian Andersen: The Fir Tree The Little Match Girl The Steadfast Tin Soldier The Snow Queen The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Angels from the Realms of Glory (James Montgomery) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) Old Santa Claus (Clement Clarke Moore) The Twelve Days of Christmas Silent Night Minstrels (William Wordsworth) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity (John Milton) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Oxen (Thomas Hardy) A Christmas Ghost Story (Thomas Hardy) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) 'Twas just this time, last year, I died (Emily Dickinson) The Magi (William Butler Yeats) The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray) Christmas Carol (Sara Teasdale) ...

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8026848462

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The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)

The Gift of the Magi, The Holy Night, The Mistletoe Bough, A Christmas Carol, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King…

By: Louisa May Alcott,O. Henry,Mark Twain,Beatrix Potter,Charles Dickens,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Hans Christian Andersen,Selma Lagerlöf,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Anthony Trollope,Brothers Grimm,L. Frank Baum,George MacDonald,Leo Tolstoy,Henry van Dyke,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Clement Moore,Edward Berens,William Dean Howells

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The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)

The Gift of the Magi, The Holy Night, The Mistletoe Bough, A Christmas Carol, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King…

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage The Mistletoe Bough Not if I Know It The Two Generals The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) A Little Book of Christmas Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) Little Girl's Christmas (Winnifred Lincoln) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) Brothers Grimm: The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White Hans Christian Andersen: The Fir Tree The Little Match Girl The Steadfast Tin Soldier The Snow Queen The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Robinson Perrault) The Blue Bird (Madame d'Aulnoy) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Turkeys Turning the Tables The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express The Pumpkin Glory Christmas Eve & Christmas Day (Edward Everett Hale) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Christmas (Zona Gale) Christmas With Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) Christmas Roses (Anne Douglas Sedgwick) Christmas Stories (Edward Berens) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol The Chimes A Christmas Tree Nobody's Story The Haunted Man ...

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8026848160

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The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems (Illustrated Edition)

230+ Stories, Poems & Carols: The Gift of the Magi, The Mistletoe Bough, A Christmas Carol, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, The Fir Tree, The Christmas Angel…

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230+ Stories, Poems & Carols: The Gift of the Magi, The Mistletoe Bough, A Christmas Carol, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, The Fir Tree, The Christmas Angel…

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Christmas Tales A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) The Mistletoe Bough (Anthony Trollope) The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen) The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen) The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen) The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen) A Little Book of Christmas (John Kendrick Bangs) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) Little Girl's Christmas (Winnifred E. Lincoln) The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)… The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Happy Hearts (June Isle) The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Amanda M. Douglas) The Chimes (Charles Dickens) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)…. Poems & Carols Silent Night King Winter The Night After Christmas The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Twelve Days of Christmas Minstrels (William Wordsworth) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) The Magi (William Butler Yeats) The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray) Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity (John Milton) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Oxen (Thomas Hardy) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman …

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8027222028

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Optimizing System z Batch Applications by Exploiting Parallelism

By: Martin Packer,Dean Harrison,Karen Wilkins,IBM Redbooks

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Optimizing System z Batch Applications by Exploiting Parallelism

By: Martin Packer,Dean Harrison,Karen Wilkins,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication shows you how to speed up batch jobs by splitting them into near-identical instances (sometimes referred to as ). It is a practical guide, which is based on the authors' testing experiences with a batch job that is similar to those jobs that are found in customer applications. This guide documents the issues that the team encountered and how the issues were resolved. The final tuned implementation produced better results than the initial traditional implementation. Because job splitting often requires application code changes, this guide includes a description of some aspects of application modernization you might consider if you must modify your application. The authors mirror the intended audience for this paper because they are specialists in IBM DB2®, IBM Tivoli® Workload Scheduler for z/OS®, and z/OS batch performance.

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A Gentleman and a Thief

The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

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A Gentleman and a Thief

The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

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, even as his victims slept only inches away. He befriended luminaries such as the Prince of Wales and Harry Houdini and became a folk hero, touted in the press as “the greatest jewel thief who ever lived” and an “aristocrat of crime.” In a span of seven years, Barry stole diamonds, pearls, and other gems worth almost $60 million today. Among his victims were a Rockefeller, an heiress to the Woolworth department store fortune, an oil magnate, Wall Street bigwigs, a top executive of automotive giant General Motors, and a famous polo player. Dean Jobb—hailed by Esquire magazine as “a master of narrative nonfiction”—once again delivers a stylishly told, high-speed ride. A Gentleman and a Thief is also a love story. Barry confessed to dozens of burglaries to protect his wife, Anna Blake (and was the prime suspect in scores of others). Sentenced to a twenty-five-year term, he staged a dramatic prison break when Anna became seriously ill so they could be together for a few more years as fugitives. With dozens of historic images, A Gentleman and a Thief is page-turning escapism that sparkles with insight into our fascination with jewel heists and the suave, clever criminals who pull them off.

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1443468541

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Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream : The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

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Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream : The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream' takes readers to the late 19th century as Scotland Yard follows the trail of a cold-blooded serial killer, Canadian doctor Thomas Neill Cream, who was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper and who would finally be brought to justice by detectives employing a new science called forensics. Dean Jobb lives in Halifax, NS. From the author of 'Empire of Deception', which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime Book and was a finalist for three Atlantic Canada book awards.

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1039515614

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Reflections from "Dean" Dean

By: Dean Leptich

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Empire of Deception

Empire of Deception

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Empire of Deception

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

A Gentleman and a Thief

A Gentleman and a Thief

The Cajuns

The Cajuns

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)

The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)

The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)

The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)

The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems (Illustrated Edition)

The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems (Illustrated Edition)

Optimizing System z Batch Applications by Exploiting Parallelism

Optimizing System z Batch Applications by Exploiting Parallelism

A Gentleman and a Thief

A Gentleman and a Thief

Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream : The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream : The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

Reflections from "Dean" Dean

Reflections from "Dean" Dean

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