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Tonight, at the Hammer Museum, Sherlock Holmes scholar Leslie Klinger (whose piece on Holmes we published here), novelist Denise Hamilton (who talks about her latest mystery here), private detective…

When Patti Waldmeir discovered a baby in a Shanghai street one winter night, she was told to mind her own business. She didnt... One might easily see such a thing in a Shanghai alleyway and think…

This is part one of Mike Davis’s serialized biography of Harrison Gray Otis, the first of nine episodes. Future installments will include Otis’s interlude as “emperor of the Pribilofs,” his military atrocities in the Philippines, his bitter legal battles with the Theosophists, the Otis-Chandler empire in the Mexicali Valley, the Times bombing in 1910, the notorious discovery of fellatio in Long Beach, and Otis’s quixotic plan for world government.