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After an on-again, off-again semi-hiatus, the Sound of Pursuit is back on a regular schedule (we hope). Way back in 2014, we launched the Sound of Pursuit podcast, motivated more by enthusiasm than good sense. We were longtime public radio people; we wanted to do a pro-level production with reported features, delivered with the spiky wit of a street-smart, lightly jaded PI who has seen things. We were obsessive weirdos about audio and did interviews in person (with our big

A teenager’s death leads to an investigation of London’s dirty money in Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling. by Cat Acree & Chapter16.org London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth By Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday. 384 pages. $35. Patrick Radden Keefe turns his significant investigative powers to the death of a con artist in his sixth book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth. What begins

A blueprint for handling extortion cases, from finding the perpetrator to (potentially) convincing police to prosecute Extortion cases are on the rise, with recent FBI estimates of $33.5 million in documented losses. Actual losses are likely far higher. Some of its most effective practitioners operate online — no need to undertake a risky bank robbery when a modern criminal can rob someone from the safety of a laptop. While news stories have zoomed in on scam hubs run by sophisticated