Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer
@deanjobb.bsky.social
Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
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A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
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A Gentleman and a Thief is a @nytimes.com Editors' Choice.
'It sounds like a scenario straight out of Old Hollywood...a suave cat-burglar who infiltrates 1920s NY society and robs the 1%'
Published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social
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'It sounds like a scenario straight out of Old Hollywood...a suave cat-burglar who infiltrates 1920s NY society and robs the 1%'
Published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social
Link: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/b...
Decked out for Christmas in historic Lunenburg #novascotia.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Decked out for Christmas in historic Lunenburg #novascotia.
Blue Mind Gallery in scenic Bear River, #novascotia has signed copies of my #truecrime and #history books in stock - just in time for #christmas
'A master of narrative nonfiction' - David Grann
Check out this great store - and check my website for details on all my books: www.deanjobb.com
'A master of narrative nonfiction' - David Grann
Check out this great store - and check my website for details on all my books: www.deanjobb.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Blue Mind Gallery in scenic Bear River, #novascotia has signed copies of my #truecrime and #history books in stock - just in time for #christmas
'A master of narrative nonfiction' - David Grann
Check out this great store - and check my website for details on all my books: www.deanjobb.com
'A master of narrative nonfiction' - David Grann
Check out this great store - and check my website for details on all my books: www.deanjobb.com
Lou Keyte, a Halifax playboy, threw the best parties and knew the right people. Leo Koretz was a Chicago swindler who pulled off a big score. Turns out they were the same person. Empire of Deception is a rollicking biography.
Explore The Globe 100 book archive www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Explore The Globe 100 book archive www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Explore The Globe 100 book archive, a complete collection of our annual list
Dig into more than 25 years of book selections, from editors’ picks to subscribers’ favourites, to find your next great read
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November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Lou Keyte, a Halifax playboy, threw the best parties and knew the right people. Leo Koretz was a Chicago swindler who pulled off a big score. Turns out they were the same person. Empire of Deception is a rollicking biography.
Explore The Globe 100 book archive www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Explore The Globe 100 book archive www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write
Thammavongsa won the Giller for Pick a Colour, her second time claiming the prize
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November 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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“Well, little brother, have you finished?”
These were the first words Dr. Wilder Penfield’s sister spoke upon waking from the brutal brain surgery Penfield performed on her. Eric Andrew-Gee revisits the remarkable medical moment: thewalrus.ca/when-canadas-mos...
These were the first words Dr. Wilder Penfield’s sister spoke upon waking from the brutal brain surgery Penfield performed on her. Eric Andrew-Gee revisits the remarkable medical moment: thewalrus.ca/when-canadas-mos...
May 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“Well, little brother, have you finished?”
These were the first words Dr. Wilder Penfield’s sister spoke upon waking from the brutal brain surgery Penfield performed on her. Eric Andrew-Gee revisits the remarkable medical moment: thewalrus.ca/when-canadas-mos...
These were the first words Dr. Wilder Penfield’s sister spoke upon waking from the brutal brain surgery Penfield performed on her. Eric Andrew-Gee revisits the remarkable medical moment: thewalrus.ca/when-canadas-mos...
Review: New book humanizes Canada’s most famous neurosurgeons, Wilder Penfield and William Cone /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/r...
Review: New book humanizes Canada’s most famous neurosurgeons, Wilder Penfield and William Cone
The Mind Mappers, by Eric Andrew-Gee, recounts their triumphs and troubles at Montreal’s famous Neurological Institute
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November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Review: New book humanizes Canada’s most famous neurosurgeons, Wilder Penfield and William Cone /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/r...
Journalist Vince Beiser wins the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Journalist Vince Beiser wins the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
Beiser’s book examines the metals needed to power technology and renewable energy
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November 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Journalist Vince Beiser wins the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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The Globe and Mail 100: The best books of 2025
Congrats to @bonnyreichert.bsky.social on making this list with her memoir How to Share an Egg
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Congrats to @bonnyreichert.bsky.social on making this list with her memoir How to Share an Egg
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The Globe 100: The best books of 2025
Our annual guide to the books that captured, delighted and informed us this year. Plus, track your favourites from years past in our first Book Archive
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November 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Globe and Mail 100: The best books of 2025
Congrats to @bonnyreichert.bsky.social on making this list with her memoir How to Share an Egg
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Congrats to @bonnyreichert.bsky.social on making this list with her memoir How to Share an Egg
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Delighted to see a 'For fans of' shout-out for my #truecrime book The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social) in the NYT Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025
Congrats to Kate Summerscale for making the list!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Congrats to Kate Summerscale for making the list!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Delighted to see a 'For fans of' shout-out for my #truecrime book The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social) in the NYT Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025
Congrats to Kate Summerscale for making the list!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Congrats to Kate Summerscale for making the list!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Chasing the Memory of a Grandfather Who Faked His Own Death crimereads.com/boss-brooks-... via @crimereads.bsky.social #truecrime #fraud #history
Chasing the Memory of a Grandfather Who Faked His Own Death
May 4, 2015, Boss/Brooks My fellow passengers on the flight from Dallas to San Angelo were an interesting mix of people: oil company men, dressed in jeans, T-shirts and dusty boots, headed back to …
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Chasing the Memory of a Grandfather Who Faked His Own Death crimereads.com/boss-brooks-... via @crimereads.bsky.social #truecrime #fraud #history
5 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/5-new-books-... via @crimereads.bsky.social
5 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins (Celadon) “Author Kashino, a longtime journalist who covered the real estate market f…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
5 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/5-new-books-... via @crimereads.bsky.social
100 Notable Books of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
100 Notable Books of 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
100 Notable Books of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
A Secret Defined Her Life. She Had No Idea. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
A Secret Defined Her Life. She Had No Idea.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A Secret Defined Her Life. She Had No Idea. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Reintroducing Jessica Mitford, the Activist With a ‘Concrete Upper Lip’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/b...
Reintroducing Jessica Mitford, the Activist With a ‘Concrete Upper Lip’
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reintroducing Jessica Mitford, the Activist With a ‘Concrete Upper Lip’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/b...
Night — and a Gentleman Burglar — at the Museum www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
Night — and a Gentleman Burglar — at the Museum
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November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Night — and a Gentleman Burglar — at the Museum www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced www.nationalbook.org/winners-of-t...
Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced
Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony
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November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced www.nationalbook.org/winners-of-t...
Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write
Thammavongsa won the Giller for Pick a Colour, her second time claiming the prize
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
The trail had gone cold for millions in stolen crypto. Then came the ‘aha!' moment that unlocked the mystery www.thestar.com/news/investi... via @thestar.com
The trail had gone cold for millions in stolen crypto. Then came the ‘aha!’ moment that unlocked the mystery
Bitcoin taken from Canadians ended up in crypto wallets controlled by ‘a hidden company.’ The fight to recoup the funds is far from over.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The trail had gone cold for millions in stolen crypto. Then came the ‘aha!' moment that unlocked the mystery www.thestar.com/news/investi... via @thestar.com
Before Jack the Ripper, the world's deadliest serial killer was Canadian doctor Thomas Neill Cream
'Excellent storytelling' – NYT Book Review
'An enthralling real-life thriller' – Publishers Weekly
Winner, CrimeCon CLUE Award for #truecrime Book of the Year
Details: www.deanjobb.com/the-murderou...
'Excellent storytelling' – NYT Book Review
'An enthralling real-life thriller' – Publishers Weekly
Winner, CrimeCon CLUE Award for #truecrime Book of the Year
Details: www.deanjobb.com/the-murderou...
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Before Jack the Ripper, the world's deadliest serial killer was Canadian doctor Thomas Neill Cream
'Excellent storytelling' – NYT Book Review
'An enthralling real-life thriller' – Publishers Weekly
Winner, CrimeCon CLUE Award for #truecrime Book of the Year
Details: www.deanjobb.com/the-murderou...
'Excellent storytelling' – NYT Book Review
'An enthralling real-life thriller' – Publishers Weekly
Winner, CrimeCon CLUE Award for #truecrime Book of the Year
Details: www.deanjobb.com/the-murderou...
Could I pull off a reverse art heist at the Louvre? I was determined to try /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-p...
Could I pull off a reverse art heist at the Louvre? I was determined to try
Why not finally make a name for myself after bleak decades of poverty and ostracism, like Mendelson Joe and Vincent van Gogh?
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November 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Could I pull off a reverse art heist at the Louvre? I was determined to try /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-p...
Did China target Pierre Trudeau with foreign interference? A new book explores the evidence /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Did China target Pierre Trudeau with foreign interference? A new book explores the evidence
Read an excerpt from Dennis Molinaro’s book Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War Against Canada
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November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Did China target Pierre Trudeau with foreign interference? A new book explores the evidence /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels
Was the 1906 "robbery" a brazen heist or a publicity stunt? You be the judge.
My latest #truecrime feature for CrimeReads
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Was the 1906 "robbery" a brazen heist or a publicity stunt? You be the judge.
My latest #truecrime feature for CrimeReads
crimereads.com/ziegfelds-fo...
@crimereads.bsky.social @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social
Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels
The overnight train from Baltimore rattled and clanked as it passed through the outskirts of Cleveland and neared its destination, Union Depot. In one of the Pullman sleeper cars, members of the ca…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels
Was the 1906 "robbery" a brazen heist or a publicity stunt? You be the judge.
My latest #truecrime feature for CrimeReads
crimereads.com/ziegfelds-fo...
@crimereads.bsky.social @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social
Was the 1906 "robbery" a brazen heist or a publicity stunt? You be the judge.
My latest #truecrime feature for CrimeReads
crimereads.com/ziegfelds-fo...
@crimereads.bsky.social @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social
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