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the true crime that's worth your time
It’s that time again! We’re diving into the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award 2022 nominees for Best Fact Crime, to see which ones are worth adding to your reading list.
Let’s start our look at the nominees with The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox.
During World War I, Ottoman forces took two Allied soldiers as prisoners of war: Harry Jones, an Oxford-educated barrister turned British soldier, and Cedric Hill, an Australian pilot with an interest in magic. The two concoct an elaborate ruse to deceive their captors and escape. The methods of their con: a homemade Ouija board and the archetypal and familiar quest for a lost treasure.