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America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Deep Cover, Never Seemed Again

Two young women vanished at about the same time in 1999. Their stories collided when a lone investigator got involved and quickly became obsessed. He suspected that one of them was a master of deception. Allegations of murder, fraud, and espionage swirled. All because of this one investigator and his hunch.

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