By William Eamon
On a sultry day in July, 1550, soldiers in the army of the Holy Roman Empire were encamped outside the city of Mahdiya, near Tunis, nervously awaiting orders to launch a final assault on the town, a stronghold of the Turkish pirate Dragut. A Spanish officer and his companion, a surgeon in the [...]
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By Michael Capuzzo
The world’s greatest detectives do their secret work in a grand, wood-paneled Victorian dining room in the shadow of Independence Hall. They meet monthly in Philadelphia from around the world, Scotland Yard and Interpol agents, FBI, NYPD, Egyptian army captains, mafia-busters, Al Qaeda hunters, investigators of the JFK and RFK assassinations, the [...]
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