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  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Eight Perfect Murders

2000s:  When truth really is stranger than fiction….

  • Location: Fictional "Port Pol", Cornwall

The Oddest Little Book Shop

Port Pol may be fictional but it has a  bookshop!

  • Location: London

Pleasing Mr Pepys

1667: the story of diarist Samuel Pepys’ London told through the eyes of his maid.

  • Location: New Hampshire "Somerset"

The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair

1975, present day: A missing girl,  a body found 30 years later. What does writer Harry Quebert know?

  • Location: Oxford

The Dictionary of Lost Words

In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.

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The Darkening Globe

1597: Each time the globe turns, murder strikes…

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