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The Art of Crime

Gavin Whitehead

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Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 88

The Art of Crime is a history podcast about the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts. New theme each season.

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Mission: Implausible, Part One (Spy vs. Spy)

Season 6 · Episode 6

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 • Duration 33:25

From an early age, Johannes Eppler yearned for adventure. It was for that reason more than any other that he agreed to spy for the Nazis. In 1942, he embarked on a dangerous mission to enter Egypt by way of the Western Desert, hoping to gather intelligence for the German military.

Show notes and full transcripts available at www.artofcrimepodcast.com.

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Princess, Singer, Actress, Spy: Asmahan (Spy vs. Spy)

Season 6 · Episode 5

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 • Duration 01:19:00

In the 1930s, singer and actress Asmahan became one of the most beloved performers in the Arabic-speaking world. After the outbreak of World War II, she embarked on a secret mission to Syria to aid in the fight against Hitler.

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The Trial (Murder by the Book)

Season 5 · Episode 7

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 • Duration 45:48

In 1937, former Mount Hermon employee S. Allan Norton was ambushed at home by a trespasser with a shotgun. Norton identified his attacker as Thomas Elder, prime suspect in the unsolved murder of Elliott Speer. Members of the community held their breath as Elder went to trial for the attempted murder of Norton, hoping that proceedings would shed light on the shooting of Headmaster Speer.

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The Suspect (Murder by the Book)

Season 5 · Episode 4

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 • Duration 52:26

Within a week or two of the shooting of Elliott Speer, Dean Thomas Elder, second-in-command at Mount Hermon School for Boys, became the prime suspect in the crime. After amassing as much evidence as possible agains Elder, District Attorney Joseph Bartlett called an inquest that would determine whether Elder would stand trial for the homicide.

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The Investigation (Murder by the Book)

Season 5 · Episode 3

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • Duration 35:59

In 1934, police were initially baffled by the murder of Elliott Speer. Then, one day, while an investigator was combing over the bookshelves in Speer's study, he happened upon a murder mystery that blew the case wide open.

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The Life and Death of Elliott Speer (Murder by the Book)

Season 5 · Episode 2

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 • Duration 44:01

The son of an internationally renowned Presbyterian preacher, Elliott Speer became headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys, a religiously oriented boarding school, in 1932. On the night of September 14, 1934, a trespasser murdered Speer in his own home, devastating his family, his colleagues, and the rest of the community.

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Introducing Season 5 . . .

Season 5 · Episode 1

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 • Duration 02:52

Introducing season 5 . . .

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Ask Me Anything (Crimes of Old New York)

Season 4 · Episode 19

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 43:57

Thanks to everyone who submitted questions and comments!

As promised, here's a link to Netherlandish Proverbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs.

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The Practice Run (Crimes of Old New York)

Season 4 · Episode 18

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 • Duration 43:13

In 1990, two men entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole something like $500 million worth of art, in what became the most infamous art heist in U.S. history. Today, we're joined by retired museum professional Frederick J. Fisher, who thinks that the Gardner affair may have been a sequel to an earlier effort to rob a different institution, the Hyde Collection, located in Glens Falls, New York. Fisher explores the theory in a new book titled The Practice Run, which is out May 15, 2025, so go order a copy!

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The Devil Wears Rothko (Crimes of Old New York)

Season 4 · Episode 17

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 • Duration 37:47

Today, we're joined by acclaimed author and filmmaker Barry Avrich to talk about one of the most colossal art fraud cases in New York history. It all started when a woman named Glafira Rosales walked into the storied Knoedler Gallery with a painting she claimed to have been created by Mark Rothko. The ensuing fiasco ended in catastrophe for the gallery.

The Devil Wears Rothko by Barry Avrich is out June 24, 2025, and you can pre-order a copy today.

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