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Elyse Graham on BOOK AND DAGGER
"A story about the librarians and scholars who invented modern spycraft."
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Joe Pompeo
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Abbott Kahler on EDEN UNDONE
"The stranger-than-fiction true story of a group of Europeans who tried to find utopia on a remote Galápagos island in the 1930s."
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Joe Pompeo
Rachel Maddow and Mike Yarvitz on ULTRA and PREQUEL
"The origin story usually brings you someplace even crazier than the insane character who attracted you to the story in the first place."
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Joe Pompeo
Margalit Fox on THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM
“Her attire was at once gorgeous and vulgar. She often wore $40,000 worth of jewels at once.”
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Joe Pompeo
Dean Jobb on A GENTLEMAN AND A THIEF
"This is the kind of anti-hero readers can root for."
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Joe Pompeo
Alex Hortis on THE WITCH OF NEW YORK
"The first woman put on trial for murder in a high profile media circus."
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Ronald Drabkin on BEVERLY HILLS SPY
"We just declassified something hot over here!"
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Brad Ricca on MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES
"It reads like a Conan Doyle story."
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Joe Pompeo
Adrien Behn on A RACE AROUND THE WORLD
Nellie Bly v. Elizabeth Bisland
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Joe Pompeo
Paul Fischer on THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES
"Thomas Edison wasn't going around murdering people."
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Sara DiVello on BROADWAY BUTTERFLY
Another juicy Jazz Age murder mystery
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Damien Lewis on AGENT JOSEPHINE
"A long process of detective work."
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