The Man Who Would Be Sherlock
The Real-Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
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In The Man Who Would Be Sherlock, a world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes.
Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective.
There can be few (if any) literary creations who have found such a consistent yet evolving independent life as Holmes. He is a paradigm that can be endlessly changed yet always maintains an underlying consistent identity, both drug addict and perfect example of the analytic mind, and as Christopher Sandford demonstrates so clearly, in many of these respects, he mirrors his creator.
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Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama - even into puppet shows and performing-dog acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other - the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, awesome and educational!
- De Janalyn en 03-14-20
De: Judith Flanders
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The Art of the English Murder
- From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should Come With a Spoiler Alert
- De Jessica en 04-15-16
De: Lucy Worsley
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 970
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 829
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 826
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic Murder at dawn of detective bureau
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
De: Kate Summerscale
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The Devil's Gentleman
- Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 179
The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune - hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life Manhattan's Gilded Age, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal proceedings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book Without an Accompanying Wiki Page Is Always A Treat
- De Carolina en 02-27-17
De: Harold Schechter
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- De: Michelle Morgan
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 205
A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- De Emily Stoneking en 11-27-18
De: Michelle Morgan
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The Complete Jack the Ripper
- De: Donald Rumbelow
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 14 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
Laying out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper, this book, by a London police officer and crime authority, has subjected every theory - including those that have emerged in recent years-to the same deep scrutiny. The author also examines the mythology surrounding the case and provides some fascinating insights into the portrayal of the Ripper on stage and screen and on the printed page. More seriously, he also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the Düsseldorf Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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catch the facts if you can
- De Alexandra en 11-17-19
De: Donald Rumbelow
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Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect
- De: Robert House, Roy Hazelwood - foreword
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer all along. The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the murders thought Aaron Kozminski was guilty, but he lacked the legal proof to convict him. By exploring Kozminski's life, Robert House here builds a strong circumstantial case against him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A restrained and humane account
- De Tad Davis en 01-08-13
De: Robert House, y otros
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Fiend
- The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
When 14-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree - the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime - were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Graphic descriptions of child torture
- De mobius_spider en 11-13-20
De: Harold Schechter
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The Golden Age of Murder
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets. This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world's most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on years of in-depth research, it reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as an audiobook
- De Pat en 08-02-15
De: Martin Edwards
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The Resurrection of the Romanovs
- Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery
- De: Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished materials and unexplored sources to probe the most enduring Romanov mystery of all: the fate of the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose remains were not buried with those of her family, and her identification with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the missing Grand Duchess.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Soap opera on caffeine!
- De B Hart en 05-03-18
De: Greg King, y otros
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Satan's Circus
- Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
They called it Satan's Circus, a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the 20th century, murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New York, N.Y
- De Robert en 07-11-07
De: Mike Dash
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Ripper
- The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I thought this was a new book.
- De Stephanie en 03-01-17
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Death in the City of Light
- The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
- De: David King
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 427
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 372
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 367
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. The main suspect was Dr. Marcel Petiot, a handsome, charming physician with remarkable charisma.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too many facts too little story
- De Caitanya en 09-27-11
De: David King
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The Professor and the Madman
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,271
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,059
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,074
Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect example of a quality audible book.
- De Jerry en 07-07-03
De: Simon Winchester
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Mary's Mosaic
- The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace
- De: Peter Janney
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 381
A shocking expos on the life and death of political peace activist Mary Pinchot Meyer, whose relationship with John F. Kennedy sheds new light on the circumstances surrounding his assassination. Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to immediately locate and confiscate her diary? What in that diary was so explosive and revealing?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read to understand the real power brokers of this country
- De barry Lowe en 02-12-16
De: Peter Janney
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Denial of Justice
- Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power, and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History
- De: Mark Shaw
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 17 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 215
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In this true crime murder mystery, Mark Shaw tells the story why Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the most feared journalists in history. Shaw includes facts that have never before been published, including eyewitness accounts of the underbelly of Kilgallen’s private life, revealing statements by family members, and shocking new information about Jack Ruby’s part in the JFK assassination. Denial of Justice adds the final chapter to the story behind why the famous journalist was killed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as titled- and not what you might expect
- De Chester Chellman en 11-26-18
De: Mark Shaw
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The Real Lolita
- The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
- De: Sarah Weinman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 220
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved novels ever. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner’s full story for the first time. Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Meandering and tedious while never delivering the promised story.
- De Timothy McCarthy en 09-15-18
De: Sarah Weinman
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Last Woman Hanged
- The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial an extraordinary four times in order to get a conviction, to the horror of many in the legal community. Louisa protested her innocence until the end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening, entertaining and exceptionally done
- De Karol Heim en 02-09-24
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Man Who Would Be Sherlock
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Aurora Dawn
- 06-13-22
An Excellent Conan Doyle Biography
This is an extremely well written and fascinating biography of Arthur Conan Doyle which does a creditable job of drawing parallels between Doyle and his well loved detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle lived an interesting life and took a passionate interest in the plight of those he believed were wrongly accused to the mysteries of the paranormal. He was an interesting guy and Sandford expertly captures the man with all his quirks as well as his brilliance.
Even if you're not a Holmes fan, this one's worth a listen.
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