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    Highway of Darkness: A Mystery Reader’s Road Trip Up California’s Highway 99

    Highway of Darkness: A Mystery Reader’s Road Trip Up California’s Highway 99

    The Postman Always Rings Twice, the desolate, farm regions of California have made compelling settings for mystery writers."">"Ever since Frank Chambers got thrown off the hay wagon at noon in The Postman Always Rings Twice, the desolate, farm regions of California have made compelling settings for mystery writers."

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