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

by Michael Capuzzo · 2008

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 Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned… more

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It used to be that people had character; now houses have character and people have personality. That
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he’d read the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, and heard the Upanishads were no different—it was clear the battle for justice was in the heart; each soul was precious. “The great religions teach us,” he said through tears, “that the loss of one soul affects us all.” Whispers
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I saw my wife when she was just born," Frank marveled. "Now that's having history." Now they were dying together. The doctors had them going at almost the exact same time. It stunned him, like the plot of an opera. "It's kind of romantic, in a way.
There's a harmony flowing through everything: art, music, shape. Sometimes you can just feel the way things are and ought to be.
forensic specialists in the world, and endure for life. No one could apply; one
The Irish are a merry race and surely they are mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.” The
There is nothing like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster,” as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. “And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Walter

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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 Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and 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. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter 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, th

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2008
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