The Mystery Spot

The embarrassingly low number of books I've read in the past year. I got nothing. No excuses. 1) Pat Conroy. The Death of Santini. 339...

Very little is known about the life of Thomas Dent Mutter, the founder of the famous Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. With this book,  Dr. Mut...

Stopped by the library to pick up my reserve of the new Murakami book, one chapter in and all is well. While there, one of the clerks, who w...

Finding grave sites of American historical figures, prominent and obscure, are a part of what makes me tick. What happened to Admiral John P...

In his books and essays, Pat Conroy often writes about his family. Of course, his father, The Great Santini, his tragic brother, and his sis...

When a memoir is full of odd, factual errors outside of the author's life, I wonder how much real truth is being fed to me. Such is th...