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• November 24, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Fantasy Collaboration

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  "Did Lam overreach, or was she just standing up for her own creative contribution? Even the question of who actually pulled in the lawyers is a little fuzzy, but what is clear is that this case became a landmark cautionary tale. It's the moment when the dream of writers and fans building worlds together cracked against the reality of copyright and contracts and intellectual property law. It's a reminder that even in imaginative universes full of telepaths, sometimes the biggest plot twist happens outside the book."

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• November 24, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Writing Your Way Out of Prison. (Or Not)

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  "The power of prison writing to expose injustice and the danger of mistaking literary brilliance for moral transformation. Come back for more Lunchtime Crime. I'll be with you, serving up some literary stories of criminal or crime adjacent acts all week."

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• November 24, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Personal Trauma or Profitable Backstory?

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  "She was as much a mind in any room as any of those famous men who went on to get book contracts. And we'll never know what kind of writing career she could have had or honestly, what kind of life their daughter would have had with the mother growing up. Her death did shape Burrow's obsessions. Control, addiction, power, despair. But those themes came at a very high cost to her, and the literary world, by and large, forgave him."

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• November 24, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Norman the Barbarian

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  "It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. This week we're serving up a sampler platter of writers behaving badly. And today's main course is a tough guy on the page. And on at least one occasion in his private life, this literary infamy unfolded at a New York apartment party that went very wrong. Norman Mailer was already famous for his swaggering Persona and his belief in himself as a gladiator."

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• November 24, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | One Flew Over a Cliff?

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  "He did not like the perspective shift away from the chief, the characterizations, the contract issues, the money, distribution. He hated it. So there was a settlement, and later there were five Oscars. I think there's only been a couple of times in movie history where the same movie took best Picture, best Director, best Actor, best actress and best adapted screenplay. None of the winners thanked him."

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• November 15, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | BOLO for T-Bird

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  "But in a season when crime stories get dark, this one briefly takes us in the other direction and reminds us that law enforcement isn't always flashing lights in arrest reports. Sometimes it's compassion and officers pooling their own money so someone doesn't feel forgotten. The Bridgeport Turkey heist may be one of the strangest crimes in Thanksgiving history, but it's also one of the most human the bad guys got away, but the good guys made sure the victim didn't eat Taco Bell for Thanksgiving."

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• November 15, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Unhappy Thanksgiving

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  "Tony was convicted and sentenced to death, but the conviction unraveled because it turns out the prosecution withheld evidence that would have exonerated him. And testimonies used against him were recanted. And some witnesses admitted to lying under pressure. So after spending years on death row, his conviction was overturned in 2009 and he was released. And the actual perpetrator or perpetrators remain unknown. So are there any theories? Not many."

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• November 15, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Blue Magic

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  "It's evil, but it's impressive. And here's where legend and fact get blurry. In American Gangster, Lucas smuggles heroin into the US in the coffins of dead American soldiers returned from Vietnam. That's very cinematic. It's a gut punch. It. It's probably not true. Atkinson denied it, calling it, well, using a word that I can't probably say on swell. But after that word Hollywood nonsense, the reality was still staggering."

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• November 15, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Cranberry Connection?

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  "And in a town like Falmouth, people connect the dots when investigators can't or won't. So what do we know? We know Shirley was ambushed. We know the crime was personal. We know investigators believe someone in her orbit holds the key. And we know that 20 years later, her murder is unsolved. If you have information on this murder, you can contact the Falmouth Police Department or the Massachusetts State Police Cold case unit."

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• November 15, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Early Checkout

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  "It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. We. We are going to Kansas City, so I guess we can grab some ribs. It's January, 1935, and this is one of the strangest unsolved murders I've come across. A young man, a hotel room, a false name, and a story that has puzzled investigators for nearly a century. We are entering the mystery of room 1046."

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