If you love true crime then  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" in this captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived". Dean will be speaking with Vanity Fair Senior Media Correspondent, Joe Pompeo. 

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About Dean Jobb:

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.

About Joe Pompeo:

My first book, BLOOD & INK: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime (HarperCollins/William Morrow), was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a top pick for the Review’s Best True Crime of 2022. It got a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly and raves from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Criminal adapted it for a riveting podcast episode and Jeff Glor did a really nice segment for CBS Saturday Morning. The book has been optioned for podcast/film/TV. (Stay tuned!) My second book is in the works. (Also stay tuned!)

At Vanity Fair I’ve done profiles of major media figures like David Zaslav and Rachel Maddow, the latter of which earned me my second Mirror Award from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.