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Stealing from the Best

July 13, 2026 Mystery Center 0

Nathaniel Rich In the world of crime fiction the heist novel is a scrappy island nation that speaks its own dialect, practices bizarre customs, and has few allies. Unlike the procedural, the psychological thriller, or […]

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Dracula — Children of the NightVictorian travel-poster treatment with a moonlit castle and bats.

July 13, 2026 Mystery Center 0

by (P.J. Nelson) I believe in ghosts unequivocally and without irony, and I will tell you why. In 1973, Dixon Place was a dead-end street in a poor section of midtown Atlanta. The rent was […]

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