Speaker’s Book:
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief, by Ben Macintyre
The Unpickable Lock and the Loss of “Perfect Security”
Online:
- TOOOL: The Open Organisation of Lockpickers – TOOOL
- Bramah Lock Archive – Matt Blaze
- In 1851, A Man Picked Two Unpickable Locks and Changed Security Forever – Gizmodo
- Rethinking the Origin of the Lock – Schuyler Towne
Print:
- A Dissertation on the Construction of Locks, by Joseph Bramah
The Zilvervloot Heist: How to Steal an Armada
Online:
- The Forgotten Jewish Pirates of Jamaica – Smithsonian
- The Jewish Pirates Who Ruled the Caribbean – Mental Floss
- Pirate – Samuel Pallache – The Strange Side of Jewish History
Print:
- Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom–and Revenge, by Edward Kritzler
- Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire, Jon Latimer
- A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe, by Mercedes García-Arenal
Better Safe than Sorry
Online:
- Safecracking for the Computer Scientist – Matt Blaze http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
- A Clip from Triple Cross (1967) – Turner Classic Movies
Print:
- The Battle of the Safes, by George Augustus Sala
- Safecracking, by Richard Byrne
- Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, by Ben MacIntyre
The Trans-Saharan Ostrich Caper of 1911
Online:
- “Falling Into Feathers”: Jews and the Trans‐Atlantic Ostrich Feather Trade – Sarah Abrevaya Stein
- The Story of the Barbary Ostrich – Safari Ostrich Show Farm
- Oudtshoorn – Ostrich Capital of The World – Oudtshoorn History
- Calisphere image search for the Cawston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena – Calisphere.org
Print:
- Dreambirds, by Rob Nixon
- Feathers, by Thor Hanson
- Plumes, by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
The Perfect Crime (Film): Rififi and Its Imitators
Online:
- Real-Life Heists That Inspired The Movies – Empire Online
- Films Distributed by United Artists – Ranker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0e9IpELxU
Print:
- Blacklisted: The Film Lover’s Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist, by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner
- Rififi: French Film Guide, by Alastair Phillips
Whodunnit?! The $30,000 $10 Million Heist from the Old Granite Lady
Online:
- Could Century-old Theft Explain Mystery of Gold Coins? – CNN
- The Story of the San Francisco Mint – US Mint
- Dimmick Dismissed by Leach From His Place in the Mint (San Francisco Call, Number 62, 1 August 1901) – California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Dimmick’s Application Denied (Los Angeles Herald, Number 149, 4 March 1903) – California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Black Bart? Jesse James? Who Hid $10 Million Worth of Gold? – SF Gate
- SF Heist at Turn of Century May Explain Buried Gold – SF Gate
- The San Francisco Mint Robery of 1901 – Newspaper Accounts – The American Cowboy Chronicles
- Black Bart
- Ancient African Coins That Could Change History of Australia – CNN
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with John Adams, Daniel Cohen, Eva Galperin, Kelly Jensen, Rebecca Power, and Seth Rosenblatt. Thank you!
