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The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / by Fox, Margalit,author.(CARDINAL)485909;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-346) and index.Buried treasure -- The digger. The record-keepers ; The vanished key ; Love among the ruins -- The detective. American champollion ; A delightful problem ; Splitting the baby ; The matrix ; "Hurry up and deciper the thing!" -- The architect. The hollow boy ; A leap of faith ; "I know it, I know it" ; Solution, dissolution -- Mr. X and Mr. Y.An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.

Subjects: Biographies.; Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941.; Kober, Alice, 1906-1950.; Ventris, Michael.; Archaeologists; Archaeologists; Civilization, Mycenaean.; Inscriptions, Linear B.; Women linguists;

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Conan Doyle for the defense : the true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice, and the world's most famous detective writer / by Fox, Margalit,author.(CARDINAL)475716;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index."In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--a Jewish cardsharp--who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Over the years he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and police diaries, meticulously noting myriad holes and inconsistencies. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Conan Doyle for the Defense immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection, telling the story of how Conan Doyle managed to get this murder conviction overturned by employing the methods of his most famous creation. Along the way, Fox illuminates a watershed moment in the history of criminal justice when reflexive prejudice began gradually to be replaced by reason and the scientific method"--

Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Murder; Criminal investigation; Forensic sciences; Vindication; Detectives;

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The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss / by Fox, Margalitauthor(CARDINAL)475716;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.Prologue: a glittering hoard -- Ascent. "The mere privilege of breath" ; No questions asked ; Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Hubris. Home improvements ; Ocean's four ; Bureau for the prevention of conviction ; Where the money was -- Nemesis. Thieves fall out ; The thief-taker general of the United States of America ; The maypole and the egg ; A strip of silk ; North by northwest -- Epilogue: Kaddish."In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum emigrated to New York from Germany and worked as a rag peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side. By the 1870s she was a widow with four children, a popular society hostess, and a philanthropist. What enabled a woman on the margins of nineteenth-century American life to ascend from tenement poverty to immense wealth? In the intervening years, Mrs. Mandelbaum had become the country's most notorious "fence"-a receiver of stolen goods and a successful criminal mastermind. By the mid-1880s as much as

Subjects: Mandelbaum, Fredericka, 1825-1894.;

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The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss / by Fox, Margalit,author.(CARDINAL)475716;

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-229) and index.Prologue: A glittering hoard -- Book One: Ascent. 'The mere privilege of breath' -- No questions asked -- Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Book Two: Hubris. Home improvements -- Ocean's four -- Bureau for the prevention of conviction -- Where the money was -- Part Three: Nemesis. Thieves fall out -- The thief-taker general of the United States of America -- The maypole and the egg -- A strip of silk -- North by Northwest -- Epilogue: Kaddish -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- References -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index."In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum emigrated to New York from Germany and worked as a rag peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side. By the 1870s she was a widow with four children, a popular society hostess, and a philanthropist. What enabled a woman on the margins of nineteenth-century American life to ascend from tenement poverty to immense wealth? In the intervening years, Mrs. Mandelbaum had become the country's most notorious "fence" -- a receiver of stolen goods and a successful criminal mastermind. By the mid-1880s as much as $10 million worth of purloined property (the equivalent of nearly $300 million in today's money) had passed through her little haberdashery shop. She planned, financed, and profited from robberies of cash, gold, and diamonds throughout New York and beyond. But she wasn't just a successful crook, she was a visionary. Called "the nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime in New York City" by the New York Times, Mandelbaum was the first person in American history to systemize formerly scattershot property crime enterprises. Handpicking a cadre of New York's foremost bank robbers, housebreakers, and shoplifters and bribing a corresponding group of the city's police and politicians, she handled logistics and organized supply chains -- turning theft into a proper, scaled business"--

Subjects: True crime stories.; Biographies.; Mandelbaum, Fredericka, 1825-1894.; Thieves; Criminals; Receiving stolen goods; Organized crime; Jewish women; Jews, German; Jewish criminals;

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The confidence men : how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history / by Fox, Margalit,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-312) and index.Prologue: A wraith at the top of the stairs -- For king and country -- Besieged -- Destination unknown -- A hundred springs -- Spooked -- The uses of enchantment -- The regard of flight -- In confidence -- Villainous OOO -- The treasure test -- The telechronistic ray -- Certifiable -- Two lunatics, five hundred pounds of butter, and a great deal of flour -- The mad ward -- Near death -- Persuasion -- Epilogue: Afterlife."Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board--and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception--to build a trap for the Turkish officers that will ultimately lead them to freedom. The Confidence Men is the story of the only known con game played for a good cause--and of a profound but unlikely friendship. Had it not been for "the Great War," Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic from an Australian sheep farm, would never have met. But in pain, loneliness, hunger, and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that saved both of their lives. Margalit Fox brings her "nose for interesting facts, the ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality" (Kathryn Schulz, New York) to this gripping tale of psychological strategy that is rife with cunning, danger, and moments of high farce that rival anything in Catch-22"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Hill, C. W. (Cedric Waters), 1891-1975.; Jones, E. H. (Elias Henry), 1883-1942.; Escaped prisoners of war; Escaped prisoners of war; Male friendship.; Prisoner-of-war camps; Prisoner-of-war escapes; Swindlers and swindling.; World War, 1914-1918; Men's friendships.;

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