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Dean Jobb
Dean Jobb’s next true crime book, A Gentleman and a Thief, coming from Algonquin Books and HarperCollins Canada in June 2024, is the rollicking story of a Jazz Age jewel thief who charmed New York’s elite and looted gems worth millions from their posh estates. He is the author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, winner of the inaugural CrimeCon CLUE Award for True Crime Book of the Year, and Empire of Deception, the story of a brazen 1920s con man that Esquire magazine proclaimed one of the best biographies of all time. Dean writes a monthly column on true crime for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and teaches in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Murder in the Air? The Mysterious Death of Stunt Pilot B.H. DeLay
Was it an accident...or the first case of "aerial murder"?
The Strange Real-Life Mystery Behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
Fact meets fiction in Poe’s classic story of a murderer.
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.
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.
“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?
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
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.
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?
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?
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