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Dean Jobb

Dean Jobb
Esquire magazine recently selected Dean Jobb’s book Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation (Algonquin Books), the story of 1920s Chicago con artist Leo Koretz, as one of the 50 best biographies of all time. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at the University of King’s College in Nova Scotia. Find him at www.deanjobb.com.


The ‘Bogus Priest’ and the Murdered President

The infamous con man who managed escape after escape and whose strange course intersected with a President's rapid decline.

April 28, 2023  By Dean Jobb
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Murder in the Air? The Mysterious Death of Stunt Pilot B.H. DeLay

Was it an accident...or the first case of "aerial murder"?

March 27, 2023  By Dean Jobb
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The Strange Real-Life Mystery Behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"

Fact meets fiction in Poe’s classic story of a murderer.

February 13, 2023  By Dean Jobb
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The Ponzi of Paris: The Greatest, Wildest Confidence Artist in French History

Marthe Hanau was a savvy woman at the head of a financial empire. She wasn't going to be taken down without a fight.

December 3, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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In Victorian London, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream Was a New Kind of Killer

Jack the Ripper wasn't the only serial killer stalking the city's vulnerable. In Lambeth, there was Dr. Cream.

July 15, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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“They Wanted Something for Nothing”: The Many Cons of the Yellow Kid

He was America's "greatest con man," self-proclaimed and widely celebrated. But what was the real story of Joseph Weil?

June 15, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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I'm Alone: How One Canadian Rumrunner Defied the U.S. Coast Guard and Sparked an International Scandal

The Sinking of the I'm Alone

March 25, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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Henry More Smith: Canada's Forgotten Confidence Man and Escape Artist

The possibly true and all-but-forgotten story of a one-man crime wave.

January 6, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mutineers

After killing off Sherlock Holmes, why did Arthur Conan Doyle take a detour into true crime writing with the story of a bloody mutiny?

November 20, 2020  By Dean Jobb
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Fraud of the Century: The Ponzi Scheme, 100 Years Later

In 1920, Boston’s Charles Ponzi gave a classic confidence trick its name. Why are investors still falling for such a notorious swindle?

August 11, 2020  By Dean Jobb
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