Audiobooks by Margalit Fox

[German] - Die furchtlose Mrs. Mandelbaum: Vom Aufstieg und Fall einer berühmt-berüchtigten Frau im

Im Jahr 1850 erreicht die 25-jährige Fredericka Mandelbaum aus Kassel wie Zigtausende andere bettelarm und nur mit dem Traum von einem besseren Leben im Gepäck das gelobte New York. In den Straßen von Lower Manhattan schlägt sie sich anfangs als Hausiererin durch – 20 Jahre später ist Fredericka »Marm« Mandelbaum geschätztes Mitglied der New Yorker High Society. Wie hat sie es in dieser Zeit zu einer der einflussreichsten Frauen der Stadt gebracht? Margalit Fox zeichnet ein lebendiges Porträt einer außergewöhnlichen Frau, die sich mit Diebstahl, Raub und Hehlerei ein Imperium aufgebaut hat, an dessen Spitze sie als Drahtzieherin stand. Als eine der ersten »Unternehmerinnen« Amerikas führte sie einen Kader der gewieftesten Bankräuber, Einbrecher und Ladendiebe ihrer Zeit, organisierte die Logistik und Lieferketten – und schuf so mit organisierter Kriminalität ein rentables Business. Doch ihre Machenschaften flogen auf und sie wurde festgenommen. Ihre Freilassung gegen Kaution nutzte sie, um nach Kanada zu fliehen. Dieses Buch erzählt die atemberaubende wahre Geschichte vom Aufstieg und Fall einer furchtlosen Frau im New York des Gilded Age. Margalit Fox nimmt uns mit in eine Stadt der Gangs, voller ruchloser Schurken, Gauner und Opportunisten auf der Grenze zwischen der Unterwelt und legalem Business, in der eine junge deutsche Auswandererin zu Reichtum und Berühmtheit fand.

Margalit Fox (Author), Ursula Berlinghof (Narrator)

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Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, an

In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder.For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no recent book that tells this remarkable story-in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit Fox takes us step by step inside Conan Doyle's investigative process and illuminates a murder mystery that is also a morality play for our time-a story of ethnic, religious, and anti-immigrant bias. In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home. The police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater-an immigrant Jewish cardsharp-who, despite his obvious innocence, was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor in a brutal Scottish prison. Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Using the methods of his most famous character, he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies, and outright fabrications by police and prosecutors. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Margalit Fox, a celebrated longtime writer for The New York Times, has "a 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). In Conan Doyle for the Defense, she immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in the history of forensics, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method.Advance praise for Conan Doyle for the Defense"I cannot speak too highly of this remarkable book, which entirely captivated me with its rich attention to detail, its intelligence and elegant phrasing, and, most of all, its nail-biting excitement."-Simon Winchester, author of The Perfectionists and The Professor and the Madman "Fox brings to life a forgotten cause célèbre in this page-turning account of how mystery writer-turned-real life sleuth Arthur Conan Doyle helped exonerate a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder. . . . The author's exhaustive research and balanced analysis make this a definitive account, with pertinent repercussions for our times."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Margalit Fox (Author), Peter Forbes (Narrator)

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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean—the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen—to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the decipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.

Margalit Fox (Author), Pam Ward (Narrator)

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