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"Actually a 3.5. I felt this was a mystery contained in a spoof of museums. Murders of museum personnel occur during an important and popular exhibit of gold artifacts from a fictional African country. The writing is a bit dense for the first quart..."
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"In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent,...
"A masterpiece. Edward Whidmer writes about the 13 days it took Lincoln to travel from his home in Springfield, IL, to Washington, DC, and his inauguration, as the Civil War is about to begin. The parallels between then and now are stunning. And th..."
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