The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum
By Margalit Fox
By Margalit Fox
By Margalit Fox
By Margalit Fox
By Margalit Fox
Read by Saskia Maarleveld
By Margalit Fox
Read by Saskia Maarleveld
Category: True Crime | 19th Century U.S. History
Category: True Crime | 19th Century U.S. History
Category: True Crime | 19th Century U.S. History | Audiobooks
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$32.00
Jul 02, 2024 | ISBN 9780593243855
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Jul 02, 2024 | ISBN 9780593243862
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Jul 02, 2024 | ISBN 9780593908365
660 Minutes
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Praise
“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York, with excursions into the art of larceny and the finer points of safecracking. The portrait of Marm Mandelbaum is irresistible: In Fox’s lush prose, you can feel the softness of the silk and see the brilliance of the diamonds she amasses and profitably passes on. This book is pitch perfect.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood
“Fox effortlessly pulls the reader into the grimy world of Gilded Age Manhattan. At the center of it all, we meet one of the most distinctive lawbreakers I’ve ever encountered—Mrs. Mandelbaum was not only a schemer but a dreamer, who saw running a crime ring as the rare way a woman could get ahead in a ruthless metropolis. This book is so full of twists, it makes you want to break out the popcorn.”—Rachel Syme, staff writer at The New Yorker
“Margalit Fox has a delightful talent for breathing life into the dead to illuminate some of the world’s most fascinating people, and Fredericka Mandelbaum may be one of her most interesting subjects yet. A true-crime saga from America’s golden era of graft and grift that reads like the prequel to Oceans 11.”—Daniel Schulman, author of The Money Kings
“Who but Margalit Fox could have come up with this delicious Gilded Age tale of Marm Mandelbaum, a diamond-laden Jewish mother who ran America’s biggest crime syndicate, and her decades-long battle of wits with those trying to bring her down? Filled with the most outlandish characters imaginable, this book brilliantly explores a culture ruled by greed, graft, and inequality, with more than a few unsettling similarities to today.”—Lynne Olson, author of Empress of the Nile
“Margalit Fox constructs a heist of her own in this richly detailed, captivating portrait of a penniless woman who rises to the ranks of criminal mastermind in Gilded Age New York.”—Graham Moore, Academy Award–winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The Last Days of Night
“Fox succeeds in rescuing a once-notorious public figure from historical obscurity. . . . An engrossing portrait of an unlikely criminal mastermind.”—Kirkus Reviews
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