Mystery Bag
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The mystery of Snowa Borno: A Finnish woman who writes in Hindi, or a male writer’s nom de plume?
No one has seen or met Snowa Borno, and she isn’t interested in being in the public sphere despite her literary success.
Saudamini Deo
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The Havana mystery: Inside the investigation into strange illnesses of US diplomats in Cuba
More than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba, there are more questions than answers.
Tim Golden, ProPublica & Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica
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From Sophocles to Sherlock: economics, literature and the detective story
Works of fiction are brimming with economic principles, but perhaps none more so than the detective story.
Frank Edmund Smith, The Conversation
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