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This Is Your FBI: National Security, Hörbuch, Digital, 470min

Saboteurs and spies! Con artists, kidnappers, and interstate felons galore! They're all fair game for Special Agent Jim Taylor, steely-eyed G-Man in This Is Your FBI! Produced with the full cooperation of Director J. Edgar Hoover himself, here are 16 radio dramas of crime and scientific investigation drawn from actual case files! Firm-jawed, firm-voiced Stacy Harris stars as Taylor, cracking down on swindlers and bunco artists, bank robbers and blackmailers, safe crackers, extortionists, and double-crossers with an air of quiet authority. Episodes Include: Espionage 04-06-45; Escaped POWs 04-27-45; Confidence Game 05-04-45; War Fraud 05-11-45; Draft Dodgers 05-25-45; Bank Robbery 06-01-45; Espionage - Cora Lee Williamson 06-08-45; The Confidence Game 06-15-45; The Friendly Killer 06-21-46; Auto Theft 06-22-45; The Surplus Swindle 06-28-46; Death in the Tropics 07-12-46; The Walkie-Talkie Stick-Up 07-19-46; The Sinister Witness 07-26-46; The Would-Be Movie Star 08-02-46; Lady of Larceny 08-09-46 Language: English. Narrator: Stacy Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/radi/001841/bk_radi_001841_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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That Fiend in Hell: Soapy Smith in Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min

As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too - among them Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith (1860 - 98), who with an entourage of "bunco-men" conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the "uncrowned king of Skagway", remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in '98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. Soapy Smith in Legend is a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith's elevation to western hero. Tracking down some 100 retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway's boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith's death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway's economic interests. Spude's engaging deconstruction of Soapy's story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin C Gray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095285/bk_acx0_095285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Lineup, Vol. 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 351min

From the golden age of radio comes 12 episodes of this popular and realistic police procedural. The Lineup was a hard-boiled drama. Like Dragnet, it realistically showed police doing their jobs. The show always began with a police sergeant ordering suspects to stand at attention so that the victim, behind one-way glass, could try to identify the criminal. While the lineup was rarely the key to solving the case, it did give the show a rhythm and also allowed for humor in the interrogation of the suspects by the sergeant. Bill Johnstone, best known as one of the voices of The Shadow, starred as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie. Wally Maher originally played Sergeant Matt Grebb, until the actor's death. His character was replaced by Sergeant Pete Carger, played by Jack Moyles. The supporting cast members were a who's who of Hollywood radio actors, including Howard McNear, William Conrad, Barton Yarborough, Hy Averback, and Herb Butterfield. The series began as a summer replacement for The FBI in Peace and War in 1950, but soon got its own time slot and would remain on radio until the spring of 1953 before making a successful transition to television. Twelve episodes included in this collection are "The Grocery Store Matter" (1 Feb 51), "The Silver Swan Case" (22 Feb 51), "The Molly about Seven Case" (27 Feb 51), "The Pointless Pierson Polemic Polarity" (5 Sep 51), "The Senile Slugging Case" (12 Sep 51), "The Fur-Flaunting Floozy" (26 Sep 51), "The Wild, Wild Woman Case" (4 Oct 51), "The Frivolous Forger Fracas" (11 Oct 51), "The Nicely Nixed Nixon Case" (18 Oct 51), "The Pixie-Picker Pickle Case" (8 Nov 51), "Bentley's Boo-Boo Case" (15 Oct 52), and "Buggered Bunco Boys" (12 Nov 52). Language: English. Narrator: Bill Johnstone, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009116/bk_blak_009116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min

In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle. He did what many other marks did - he went home, borrowed more money from his family, and returned for another round of swindling. Only after he lost that second fortune did he reclaim control of his story. Instead of crawling back home in shame, he vowed to hunt down the five men who had conned him. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet crisscrossed the country from Texas to Florida to California to Colorado, posing as a country hick and allowing himself to be ensnared by confidence men again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Within four years, Frank Norfleet had become nationally famous for his quest to out-con the con men. Through Norfleet's ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the mechanics behind the scenes of the big con - a piece of performance art targeted to the most vulnerable points of human nature. Reading shows how the big con has been woven throughout U.S. history. From the colonies to the railroads and the Chicago Board of Trade, America has always been a speculative enterprise, and bunco men and bankers alike have always understood that the common man was perfectly willing to engage in minor fraud to get a piece of the expanding stock market - a trait that made him infinitely gullible. Amy Reading's fascinating account of con artistry in America and Frank Norfleet's wild caper invites you into the crooked history of a nation on the hustle, constantly feeding the hunger and the hope of the mark inside. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard McGonagle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002960/bk_rand_002960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Viola Roberts Cozy Mystery Collection, Books Four - Six: Viola Roberts Cozy Mysteries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 656min

A Viola Roberts Cozy Mystery Collection Books Four - Six contains the second three Viola Roberts Cozy Mystery books:The Body in the BathtubBunco night seems like a safe bet until someone finds a dead body in the bathtub. With her friends in shock and topping the local detective’s suspect list, Viola Roberts decides it’s time once again to take matters into her own hands.With her usual snark and disregard for the rules, Viola investigates everything from a cupcake eating contest to the sordid affairs of the deceased’s husband. All while fending off her mother’s matchmaking attempts. She’s pretty sure she knows whodunit, but with her bunco ladies being targeted by a killer, Viola may have to decide between being right, or ending up dead.The Venom in the ValentineViola Roberts is down in the dumps after discovering her boyfriend, Lucas, is snowed in back east. Her best friend, Cheryl, agrees to substitute a girl’s weekend for the romantic Valentine’s Day he had planned. Massages and mani-pedis for the win!That is, until the hotel guests start receiving venomous Valentines, and one of them ends up dead. In a remote resort on the wild Oregon coast, it’s up to Viola to get to the bottom of things before any more guests fall to the killer’s poison pen.The Remains in the RectoryWhile touring the Cotswolds of England, Viola Roberts and her boyfriend, Lucas Salvatore, get stranded by a downpour of epic proportions. The quaint village of Chipping Poggs has only one inn, and just their luck, it’s a haunted mansion. Viola tries to make the best of her rainy vacation by “ghost hunting” and poking her nose where it doesn’t belong. Until she pokes it right into the middle of a murder.With the village cut off by flooding from the violent storm, Viola naturally starts sleuthing. But when a second guest is found dead, and then a third body shows up, Viola’s own ghosts might be telling her it’ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yvette Keller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150885/bk_acx0_150885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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