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What's spectacular about this book is not the freakishly amazing research the author put in, or the dedication to inhabit the shoes of the dead, or the chiasmic way he tells the story - from both the beginning, middle, and end. No, what's spectacular is that he mostly likely - after a half century of the dead-in-the-water-ness of literally the coldest case ever, he actually, finally, at the end, most likely solves the case! He didn't know he'd do that going in! Then he re-paints the picture of what happened to put a final, super-convincing bow on it all, and…

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