Jonathan Goodman

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Jonathan Goodman was one of Britain's leading historian of crime. The American critic and historian Jacques Barzun described him as "the greatest living master of the true-crime literature", and Julian Symons, another big name in true-crime, thought of him as "the premier investigator of crime past".

His career as a full-time writer began in the 1970s when he edited the Celebrated Trials series which itself was a successor to Notable British Trials. Then in the 1980s, he worked on numerous anthologies, such as The Railway Murders (1984) and The Seaside Murders (1985), often persuading his many friends to provide a chapter and then writing a short introduct

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Jefferson Fisher

Hi, I’m Jefferson.

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Shane Parrish is the founder, curator and wisdom seeker behind Farnam Street (www.fs.blog).

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Nita Prose

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Brian P. Moran

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Keith Ferrazzi

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Emlyn Williams

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Robert Greene

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David Smith

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