Details:
- author: William Norris
- full title: A Talent to Deceive - The Search for the Real Killer of the Lindbergh Baby
- narrator: Tom Beyer
- genre: true crime
- topics: #crime, #kidnapping
- publisher: CamCat Perspectives
- publish date: 21.01.2021
- timing: 11:52:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book
On the night of March 1, 1932, a small child was taken from his bedroom in a lonely house near Hopewell, New Jersey. A ransom note was discovered, and a demand of $50.000 paid by the distraught parents. But the little boy never came home. His body was later found some two miles away, decomposed almost beyond recognition.
There was nothing terribly unusual about this tragedy. Kidnapping was rife in America at the time. In the three years prior to 1932, there had been at least 2,500 such cases. Only the identity of the parents transformed this event from the banal to the sensational: They were Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow. Hence, it became labeled in due course by the Trial of the Century. It also became The Case That Will Never Die.
My Thoughts
A Talent to Deceive is a very thoroughly researched true crime book. I was surprised about how much work the author must have put into this book. I don't usually read the true crime genre, and also, I didn't hear about this Lindberg baby kidnapping before. But I found this to be a very interesting case. Unfortunately, in this case, a baby was harmed, and this is a very heart-breaking fact. But all the same, I was interested in hearing the whole story, even though it is quite a long one.
Narration is very good and it suits the genre.
About the Author
William (Bill) Norris spent more than ten years working for various newspapers in England and Africa before his appointment as Parliamentary Correspondent to the prestigious Times of London. Afterward, as the Africa Correspondent for The Times, he covered a wide range of political beats in Biafra, Nigeria, Angola, the Congo, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. He went on to counsel young journalists as the Associate Director of the PressWise Trust (a British media ethics charity) and present at colleges and conferences for many years, publishing numerous works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by his investigative journalism. He now resides in the South of France with his wife Betty, two cats, and two exhausting dogs.
