The End of True Crime Storytelling

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I am finding myself grateful that this kind of this book predates the trappings of modern like true crime storytelling though. I feel like a orchid would be pretty easy to put it if you in your cap is they they're big flowers. It would be a pretty good hat. Yeah especially if you get the stinky the stinky orchids and what if you could wear a stinky orchid hat to the Kentucky Derby? Tinky orchidhat.

This week: a non-fiction book that sometimes reads a lot like fiction, The Orchid Thief is only a little about the titular thief and a LOT about Florida and its history and its denizens. Plus, "orchidelirium," the part of the 19th century where the English aristocracy would just go wild for these bad boys.

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