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Vanessa Braganza is a student at Columbia Law School and is the author of the forthcoming book “The Secret-Seekers: A Book Detective’s Quest to Decode the Renaissance.” Few genres are as universally ...

Detective stories have long been built around a familiar formula, a brilliant investigator, a puzzling case, and a dramatic reveal that ties every clue together. While the Enola Holmes films embrace ...

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