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June 27, 2026

Read-Handed: London Falling and Lewis and Clark

the true crime that's worth your time

Plus Sean Combs, SBF, JFK, and more true-crime reads for your weekend.

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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Patrick Radden Keefe) // Just finished it on audio, as read by the author. The great Garrett Graff recommended London Falling in a recent newsletter and referred to Keefe's "exacting pacing and structure," and I found myself struck once again by that pacing, Keefe's thorough but efficient funneling of multiple sociological and historical contexts towards his central story – and by what Keefe doesn't do.

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