Adults ages 18+ / Registration Required (Zoom)

**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.** 

We love true crime, and author Dean Jobb's new book, A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue hits all the right notes! It's Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby meets Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief! Dean will be joining us virtually via Zoom on Monday, July 22, at 7 PM to talk about his captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper and tell us the story of Arthur Barry, "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived." 

In a span of seven years, Barry stole pearls, diamonds, and other precious gems worth almost $60 million today. Among his many victims were a Rockefeller, an heiress to the Woolworth Department Store fortune, an oil magnate, Wall Street bigwigs, a top executive of automotive giant General Motors, and a famous polo player. He befriended the Prince of Wales, Harry Houdini, and other luminaries. We hope you can join us for this special event! This virtual program is presented with Ashland (MA) Public Library.

Dean Jobb is the author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, winner of the inaugural CrimeCon CLUE Award for true crime book of the year and longlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. His previous books include Empire of Deception, which the New York Times Book Review called “intoxicating and impressively researched” and the Chicago Writers Association named the Nonfiction Book of the Year. Esquire magazine has hailed him as “a master of narrative nonfiction.” Jobb has written for major newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune and Toronto’s Globe and Mail and his monthly true crime column, “Stranger Than Fiction,” appears in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. He is a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program.

Register directly on Zoom HERE.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

Questions? Call the library at (603) 432-7154 or email Librarian Maria.