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“I think Macintyre is particularly good at taking very thorough scholarship and translating it into an entertaining story, so that, without realising it, you’re learning about real historical facts. His books are scrupulous in the accuracy of their detail but reading them is like eating a bar of candy. The Napoleon of Crime was the first of his books that I read. To be fair, it’s not really about art crime. It’s about a person called Adam Worth who, after Al Capone, is probably the most famous criminal in history. The term ‘the Napoleon of crime’ was coined to describe him, and he was the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes’s nemesis Moriarty.” Read more...
Noah Charney, Novelist
Other books by Ben Macintyre
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
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Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
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All The President’s Men
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Killer in the Shadows: The Monstrous Crimes of Robert Napper
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
