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In the realm of true crime, dark psychology, and mind manipulation, The Skillful Art of Manipulation is your immersive gateway into the chilling world of psychological thrillers, real-world mind games, and behavioral control. Hosted by Joe & Ryan, this gripping podcast and audiobook series dissects the tactics of emotional coercion, deception, and influence used in romance, business, politics, and beyond. Each episode unpacks how modern manipulators — from con artists and cult leaders to toxic partners and corporate strategists — exploit psychological triggers, communication tools, and ...

Imagine a Museum of Lost Art. If this imaginary museum contained just the artwork we knew was lost— whether from theft, purposeful destruction, vandalism, war, or the forces of nature—it would still contain more masterpieces than those in all the world’s current museums combined. Imagine that! In Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces, art historian Noah Charney guides you through just such an imaginary museum. In 12 fascinating lectures, you will hear the stories behind the theft and/or destruction of some of the world’s most famous pieces of art.

In the realm of true crime, dark psychology, and mind manipulation, The Skillful Art of Manipulation is your immersive gateway into the chilling world of psychological thrillers, real-world mind games, and behavioral control. Hosted by Joe & Ryan, this gripping podcast and audiobook series dissects the tactics of emotional coercion, deception, and influence used in romance, business, politics, and beyond. Each episode unpacks how modern manipulators — from con artists and cult leaders to toxic partners and corporate strategists — exploit psychological triggers, communication tools, and ...

Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This audiobook is about how this brilliant, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life. But in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and three children. After the deaths, Longo fled to Mexico, where he passed himself off as Michael Finkel, New York Times journalist.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. These twelve were first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. (From Wikipedia)

This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent. In it, Trent is sent to a charming English seaside village to cover the murder of Sigsbee Manderson for a large London newspaper. The victim is an unpopular and extremely powerful financial tycoon, who is murdered virtually within sight of his own house, at a time when it seems impossible that anyone there – to say nothing of all of its more than half dozen inhabitants – could have failed to see or hear the crime being committed. As Trent pokes around, attention is ...

On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. For months Kantor and Twohey had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, learning of disturbing, long-buried allegations. The journalists meticulously picked their way through a web of decades-old secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements, pressed some of the most famous women in the world to risk going on the record.

A collection of classic mystery and detective stories, edited by Julian Hawthorne. This volume includes Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Egerton Castle, Stanley J. Weyman, Wilkie Collins and Robert Louis Stevenson.

From Urban Art and Antiques comes a journey through art, history, and the stories objects tell. In Antiques Mysteries, we explore the hidden pasts of forgotten treasures—artifacts that carry whispers of time, memory, and the uncanny. In Great Paintings, we step inside the canvas to uncover the lives of artists and the moments that shaped their masterpieces. Whether it’s a mysterious doll that returns home or a painting that captures the fleeting light of a vanished world, each episode reveals how art and antiques connect us to the past—and to ourselves. Discover more at http://...

In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes" - the gentleman-burglar once more meets his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes. If in the last story of "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar" Sherlock Holmes arrives too late (the name was at a later date changed to Herlock Sholmes in reply to complaints and threats by Conan Doyle regarding copyrights), in the two stories that compose "The Blonde Lady" these two great intellects are bound in opposite directions. Where one ...

Indian horror podcast featuring original Indian horror stories, Indian creepypastas, paranormal tales, supernatural fiction, and immersive audio storytelling in podcast and animated video format. Hosted by Nikesh Murali, Commonwealth Short Story Prize-winning writer, bestselling horror author, and professional narrator, the show brings dark Indian fiction and eerie folklore to life for horror fans in India and around the world. Featured in Harper’s Bazaar, India Today, CBC, The Hindu, Times of India, New Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Deccan Herald, The Statesman, The Week, The Telegraph, ...

LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY OLD TIME ENGLISH A collection of classic mystery and detective stories, collected and edited by Julian Hawthorne.Note: the second chapter of Dickens’ The Haunted House is not included in this edition. (Summary by Julie VW)

In the realm of true crime, dark psychology, and mind manipulation, The Skillful Art of Manipulation is your immersive gateway into the chilling world of psychological thrillers, real-world mind games, and behavioral control. Hosted by Joe & Ryan, this gripping podcast and audiobook series dissects the tactics of emotional coercion, deception, and influence used in romance, business, politics, and beyond. Each episode unpacks how modern manipulators — from con artists and cult leaders to toxic partners and corporate strategists — exploit psychological triggers, communication tools, and ...

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In this fourth volume, we find stories originally written in French, Italian, Spanish and Latin. (Summary by Leni)

If it was murder, how did the murderer get through a door and leave it locked on the inside? If suicide, how did the dead man turn off the gas? A tantalizing mystery well written and not lacking the saving grace. (Ontario Library Review, 1926)

THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OF THE ENTIRE WESTERN WORLD WERE BAFFLED, HELPLESS. THE WORD WENT OUT: "CALL STEPHEN DAIN!" In broad daylight, in the middle of a London street, a little man nobody knew snatched a steel-lined briefcase from the hands of armed secret agents. The briefcase held the fate of nations. Stephen Dain had to get it before the enemy did. He had one clue-a beautiful clever, dangerous girl!!!!! Summary from the Back cover, Bantam Books 1961 Paperback Edition

Can a detective novel succeed in riveting your attention if you know the crime beforehand and the perpetrator? Austin Freeman proves he can and this novel is one such by him where Dr Thorndyke unravels a mystery in his inimitable style - Summary by Yoganandh T

A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This is the delightful first of twenty volumes in the Arsène Lupin series written by Leblanc himself. In an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Sherlock Holmes and Lupin actually meet, briefly in this first volume, and more substantially in the next. But after legal objections from Conan Doyle, the name was changed to "...

Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless thief and killer, a bloodthirsty successor to LeBlanc's Arsène Lupin. The first five novels were made into silent film serials. The character and the movies caught the eye of the French Surrealists who admired the primal violence of Fantômas, as well as his portrayal in the films, which are considered landmarks in French Cinema. In Fantômas, the Marquise de Langrune is savagely murdered and Inspector Juve, who is obsessed with capturing Fantômas, arrives to ...

A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way home after a long night on the job. But his newshound instincts kick in. Who is the elderly man? What was he doing at the law chambers in the middle of the night? Why had someone seen fit to strike him on the back of the head? As this convoluted tale weaves its way from London to Cornwall to Yorkshire and back to London, it will keep you guessing until the end.