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Hardcover Mysteries

Hardcover Mysteries travels inside the minds of America's most popular fiction crime writers. These top novelists will help tell the stories of the real-life cases that inspired them to write, or captured their facsination.

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Massimo McQueen
Detective
David Hill
Deputy Larry Swinford
Mitchell Salberg
Danny Ross

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

David Baldacci

Mon, Oct 11, 201043 mins

In 1964, D.C. socialite Mary Meyer was murdered. At the trial, the revelation of Mary's diary, which detailed an affair with President Kennedy, leads many to conspiracy theories and became the partial basis for Baldacci's best-seller, Absolute Power.

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