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The Murder Room

The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases

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The Murder Room

De: Michael Capuzzo
Narrado por: Adam Grupper
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Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders.

Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter—a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor lothario who speaks to the dead, and an eccentric profiler known as “the living Sherlock Holmes”—were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders of innocents. They decided one day over lunch that something had to be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The three men invited the greatest collection of forensic investigators ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to the Downtown Club in Philadelphia to begin an audacious quest: to bring the coldest killers in the world to an accounting. Named for the first modern detective, the Parisian Eugéne François Vidocq - the flamboyant Napoleonic real-life sleuth who inspired Sherlock Holmes - the Vidocq Society meets monthly in its secretive chambers to solve a cold murder over a gourmet lunch.

The Murder Room draws the listener into a chilling, darkly humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from their Victorian dining room to hunt the ruthless killers of a millionaire's son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.

Michael Capuzzo's brilliant storytelling gifts bring true crime to life more realistically and vividly than it has ever been portrayed before. It is a world of dazzlingly bright forensic science; true evil as old as the Bible and dark as the pages of Dostoevsky; and a group of flawed, passionate men and women, inspired by their own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness, and justice in a world gone mad.

©2010 Michael Capuzzo (P)2010 Simon and Schuster Audio Crimen Crímenes Reales Detective Histórico Homicidio Ciencia forense Emocionante Ficción Sherlock Holmes

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Michael Capuzzo’s The Murder Room is a dark and bloody scrapbook of some of America’s longest standing cases. A gripping experience, it also explains the rise of forensic science to the glamorous discipline now ubiquitous across network television. If the subject matter is disturbing, the treatment is undeniably glamorous, and the contrast between subject and treatment should make for queasy listening. Thankfully, Adam Grupper’s narration acts as a counterbalance to the sensational material: his measured delivery doesn’t dwell on the macabre details, nor does he relish the ghoulishness.

It is surprising how true the clichés of crime literature turn out to be. Here, for example, we have Richard Walter, the cerebral, classics-living forensic psychologist “obsessed with things that decent people were happiest not knowing about”. Frank Bender is his Dionysian opposite, a brilliant forensic artist whose clay models rescue vanished faces, yet whose unconventional private life is given a little too much attention by the clearly smitten author.

Capuzzo’s writing can be compared to contemporary crime masters such as Michael Connelly and Linda Fairstein. Like the forensic experts he chronicles, the author reanimates crimes long-since filed away through the power of his imaginative observations: moments before her death, a victim is “dreaming her thoughts into the bleak grey sky”. He is also good at the time-honored need to reframe senseless crimes through a metaphysical lens. Along the way, there are a few missteps: unhelpfully opaque sentences such as “His was a dark vision, the same one that made Machiavelli and Dostoevsky embittered men and geniuses for the ages,” and head-scratching assertions such as “In the modern media age, Bender was becoming better known in his time than Michelangelo was in his.” The listener will have to decide on his or her own where their level of comfort stands in relation to the license Capuzzo takes in dramatising events unknowable except to the dead and the deranged: it is an irony that a book concerned with establishing facts resorts to so much colorful conjecture.

Another challenge for the listener is the fragmented storytelling: the story dips in and out of several cases as they progress, and it can be a struggle to hold on to the narrative threads. But with barely a pause between each chapter, Grupper’s unfaltering narration drives the listener on through the grim accumulation of bodies. His restraint is his greatest attribute: his uninflected reading gives just enough space to let the true tragedy of each case come across all the more vividly, a respectful tribute to the victims of the crimes chronicled in this morbid yet engrossing book. Dafydd Phillips

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This book has the advantages of both a great characters and fascinating mysteries. This book's characters' drive the plot and the murders they solve are written as vignettes. Cyclical in his story telling, Michael Capuzzo captures how life can tangle within others lives. If you enjoy mysteries, like Agatha Christie, you will love this book. If you are a fan of James Patterson, this might be a fun brake, but it is not suspenseful (it is character driven not plot driven).

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Murder Room?

The end of the book, but I'm not giving it away.

What about Adam Grupper’s performance did you like?

Adam Grupper has done a great job representing the three main protagonist.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The heirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Great Real Life Mysteries & real life relationship

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Kinda jumps around a little bit, but overall a solid read. However, the ending?!! Wtf!? Who did it?????

Great book

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Except for the very end what an incredible book.
Vidak society is doing incredible work and I hope they continue for many years.

Couldn’t stop listening

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I was captivated from the first page. We meet the Vidocq Society: the world's leading forensic experts and detectives. Meet the living Sherlock Holmes, Richard Walter, the brilliant and eccentric forensic artist Frank Bender and William Lynn Fleisher of the US Customs learn why and how they became among the very best in the world at catching murderers. The Vidocq Society only undertakes cold cases, and murders. Author Michael Capuzzo explains "When the world breaks and needs fixing, the thing to do is find the right three men."

real life forensics

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What did you like best about The Murder Room? What did you like least?

I liked the characters

Has The Murder Room turned you off from other books in this genre?

Not really

Which character – as performed by Adam Grupper – was your favorite?

The reconstruction artist

Did The Murder Room inspire you to do anything?

Not really

Any additional comments?

I didn't appreciate the fact that many of the cases brought before the committee were not solved or not explained as being solved

I expected more

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I purchased this book because I was looking for content about criminal profiling. The title, "Murder Room," threw me off because it made me wonder if the content was mostly fluff, or a serious and empirical focus on criminal profiling.

Well, I am happy to report that the "Murder Room" is a superior choice for those interested in learning about criminal profiling!!! MR is a serious and historical and biographical look at our best criminal profilers and the art of criminal profiling.

Before MR, I knew little about Vidoq; nothing about the Vidoq Society or their role in solving cold cases. (Actually, I thought Allan Pinkerton was the "father" of modern criminal investigation.)

MR shows how the convergence of psychology, art, unconventional thinking, collaboration, TV, persistence, creativity and altruism led to the solving of "unsolvable" cold cases.

My only regret is that I wish it were longer! : ))

Entertaining, Educational and Engrossing!

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The stories were hard to follow. Couldn’t stay engaged. Couldn’t finish it. Jumped around a lot.

Couldn’t finish….

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This is a book about the Vidocq Society that seeks to solve cold cold crime cases. It is a series of stories relating the group's efforts in solving particular crimes. It is informative and interesting. The writing is good and the narration is very good. The chapters are a little disjointed for my taste and the "solutions" to the crimes always seem to be right on for the society. On the other hand, the book is entertaining and worth the time - particularly if you are looking for an interesting diversion in a commute.

The Vidocq

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It’s non fiction as thrilling as any murder mystery.. you can’t go wrong with this one.

The Best Book on Murder in Literature

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I actually order this book by mistake. it grabbed me write from the start! The book was informative, entertaining, sad, and inspiring
It's been a while since I had a book that I couldn't wait to get back to! The narrator was perfect for this book. I would highly recommend it!

great book

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