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    ‘I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You’: The Con Artist Who Peddled the Brooklyn Bridge

    Dean Jobb on John McCarthy, the "last of the old-time crooks."

    April 15, 2024  By Dean Jobb
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    Rena Pederson on Dallas's Elusive, High Society Jewel Thief

    The thief planned burglaries around the city's social season and seemed to know exactly who had the jewels worth stealing.

    April 10, 2024  By Kevin Canfield
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    Real Life Crimes That Are Stranger Than Fiction

    Emily Bain Murphy on crimes that have fascinated, horrified, and inspired throughout the ages.

    March 28, 2024  By Emily Bain Murphy
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    Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

    Valorie Castellanos Clark on the Covert Quests of the First Woman to Make a Living Writing in English

    March 18, 2024  By Valorie Castellanos Clark
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    Looking Back on the 90s-Era Satanic Panic In a New Age of Conspiracy Theories

    On the "toxic Puritan cycle" that causes ordinary people to either embrace outlandish ideas or pathologize those who do

    March 15, 2024  By Maggie Thrash
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    Claire Coughlan Explores Dublin's Hidden Past

    Backstreet abortions and a journalist's quest form the backbone of this powerful debut novel.

    March 14, 2024  By Peter Handel
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    The Women Codebreakers Who Uncovered Some of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spies

    "No one could know. In order to be effective, Venona needed to remain secret"

    March 8, 2024  By Katherine Reay
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    Death Wishes, Malingering Manuals, and Other Bizarre Propaganda Games That Actually Worked During WWII

    Folded inside rolling paper packets, German soldiers found intricate guides to simulating illness. But why?

    March 7, 2024  By Peter Pomerantsev
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    Edgar Allan Poe's Bid to Become a Real-Life Crime Solver

    Having created a popular fictional detective, Poe set out to apply his theories of reason to the day's biggest mysteries.

    March 5, 2024  By Alex Hortis
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    The Many Real Life Deaths Surrounding The "Star Wars" Defense Initiative

    Lisa Black on Reagan's elaborate defense system and the string of mysterious deaths found deep within its murky history

    March 1, 2024  By Lisa Black
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