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Unlike the detective stories of Sherlock Holmes, all the stories in this book are true. Whether he is investigating the mysterious death of a British Sherlock Holmes expert, the Texas arson case in which a father murdered his three biological daughters, or tracking bizarre criminals who are good at disguise like chameleons, or Polish postmodern writers who write down the true crime process in novels, or describing the three generations of "sand pigs" who built thousands of miles of underground water pipe networks in New York, and the former "greatest base stealer in history" who still refuses to leave the baseball field at the age of 46... David Grann has proven himself to be one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of our time. Grant leads readers through the mysterious dungeon and the Central Prison of the Sea, and meets the most legendary heroes and villains, as well as their respective obsessions and madness, trying to tell us: the truth is always stranger than fiction.