Art History Crimes

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    • Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
    • By: Martin Edwards
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In the first major history of crime fiction in 50 years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the 18th century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world’s most popular form of fiction....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts
    • By: John Barelli, Zachary Schisgal
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of 40 years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet....

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    • A Memoir of War and Love
    • By: Fergal Keane
    • Narrated by: David McFetridge
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past....

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    • Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban
    • By: Bette Dam
    • Narrated by: Melita Cameron-Wood
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was an enemy that they knew little about, and about whose founder and leader, Mullah Omar, they knew even less.

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    • The Incredible True Story of the Detective Who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld
    • By: Arthur Brand, Jane Hedley-Prôle - translator
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The true story of a detective, two bronze horses and the dictator who set the world on fire....

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    • A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
    • By: Paul Fischer
    • Narrated by: Emily Ellet
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures pulls back the curtain and reveals the riveting story of both Louis Le Prince's life and work, dispelling the secrets that shroud each....

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    • The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
    • By: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees....

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    • The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America's Most Polarizing Band
    • By: Art Tavana
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Goodbye, Guns N' Roses is a genre-rattling attempt to explain the appeal of America's most divisive rock band....

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    • By: L. S. Hilton
    • Narrated by: Sophie Ward
    • Series: Maestra, Book 3
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Glamorous international art dealer Elizabeth Teerlinc knows a thing or two about fakes. After all, she is one herself....

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    • Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
    • By: Howard Blum
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air....

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    • A Flora Garibaldi Art History Mystery
    • By: Sarah Wisseman
    • Narrated by: Carrie Coello
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the historically rich city of Siena, Italy, old paintings are as common as cobblestones. But what if some of those paintings are forgeries? And what if your employers at Restauro Lorenzetti, a respected firm of art conservators, might be smuggling antiquities? Find out....

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    • A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
    • By: Joel Warner
    • Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded execution....

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    • A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon (True Crime History)
    • By: Robin Odell
    • Narrated by: Dean Eby
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace was literate and the press was a force for social change. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding the Ripper....

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    • Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme
    • By: Charlie English
    • Narrated by: Crawford Logan
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 05-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally ill, The Gallery of Miracles and Madness lays bare the culture war that paved the way for Hitler's first extermination programme, the psychiatric Holocaust....

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    • Reporting the JFK Assassination
    • By: Bill Sanderson
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Thanks to one reporter's skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963 when the world stopped and held its breath....

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    • The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-20
    • Language: English
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    • For the truly well-rounded "intellectual," nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge....

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    • The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled off the World's Greatest Art Heist
    • By: Stephen Kurkjian
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 17-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime....

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    • By: Ruthie Knapp
    • Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-12
    • Language: English
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    • In Who Stole Mona Lisa?, author Ruthie Knapp crafts a fascinating look at the disappearance of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911—retold from the point of view of the painting....

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    • How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light
    • By: John R. Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • In Bearing Witness, John Carpenter explores how across the world, those who experienced the war tried to make sense of it both during and in its immediate aftermath....

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