The Art of Crime

Gavin Whitehead

Booking Overview

This is a history interview podcast examining intersections between true crime and the arts, with external guests typically consisting of historians and nonfiction authors discussing their books and specialized research. PR agencies could credibly pitch published historians, biographers, authors of narrative nonfiction, and scholars whose work connects crime with film, literature, or cultural history; booking difficulty is medium because strong subject expertise and relevant published work appear necessary.

Metrics

Episodes: 108

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

artofcrimepodcast@gmail.com

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Host

Gavin Whitehead - Historian, writer, and podcast host focused on the intersections of crime, history, and the arts.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Published historians, biographers, and nonfiction authors with specialized expertise in crime history, cultural history, or the relationship between crime and the arts.

Required Achievements:

Published nonfiction book, Recognized expertise in a specialized historical subject, Research connecting crime with film, literature, or cultural history

Recent Guest Discussions

Bench Ansfield - The 1970s Bronx Arson Crisis, Landlord Insurance Fraud, Displacement, And The Bronxploitation Film Genre.

Jonathan Gill - The Life Of Hollywood Filmmaker And Cold War Double Agent Boris Morros, Including His Espionage For Soviet And American Interests.

Margalit Fox - Fredericka Mandelbaum, A Nineteenth-century New York Crime Boss, And The Historical Context Of Her Criminal Career.

Recent Topics

True Crime, Art, History, Film, Biography

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Art of Crime

Book and Dagger (Beach Reads)

September 02, 2026

Today, we're joined by historian Elyse Graham to talk about Book and Dagger, her riveting account of how the OSS, a precursor to the CIA, recruited scholars, artists, and activists to help the U.S. spy on the Nazis during World War II. If you'd like to suppor the show, please consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/artofcrimepodcast. For show notes and full transcripts, visit www.artofcrimepodcast.com.

Capone's Vault (Beach Reads)

August 19, 2026

Forty years ago, millions of Americans turned on their TVs to watch The Mysteries of Al Capone's Vault. In this live broadcast, construction workers blasted their way into a subterranean chamber beneath Chicago's Lexington Hotel, believed to have been a secret vault that belonged to the crime boss. My guest, William Elliott Hazelgrove, author of the new book, Capone's Vault, tells the story of how this broadcast got made and what investigators discovered underneath the Lexington once the came...

The Witch of New York (Beach Reads)

August 05, 2026

Today, I'm joined by Alex Hortis, author of The Witch of New York, a riveting account of the 1843 trials of Polly Bodine. A resident of Staten Island, Bodine was accused of murdering her sister-in-law and her infant niece, sparking public outrage. Bodine went to trial not once, not twice, but three times for the crimes, and Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and P.T. Barnum variously took part in the attendant media circus. If you'd like to support the show, please consider becoming a patron at...

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