The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather… - Michael Capuzzo

Category: Adults, Detective, True Crime
Language: English
Keywords: Murder Serial Killer Vidocq Society

Written by Michael Capuzzo
Read by Adam Grupper
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

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

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: August 10, 2010
Duration: 15:00:29

The Vidocq Society is a team of the world’s foremost forensic investigators, who meet each month to solve cold cases and bring murderers to justice.

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 of innocents. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided that something had to be done, and they pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. Named for the first modern detective, the Parisian Eugène 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 murders of a millionaire’s son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.

“Adam Grupper’s narration is superb. Listeners can identify the key characters throughout the performance with ease, thanks to Grupper’s consistent and lively delivery. Capuzzo’s fascinating text, coupled with Grupper’s impressive narration, engages the listener from the start. THE MURDER ROOM is exemplary nonfiction listening.”—Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award

You may get too much information about private lives than you want, especially Frank Bender. Their greatest disappointment was not discovering the identity of “the Boy in the Box”. Thanks to advances in DNA, his identity was discovered in 2022.

The Society is still in existence but the original members from 1999 have long-since retired, or died.