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Poem Leads To Real Buried Treasure

This reads like a novel! Somewhere between Santa Fe and the Canadian border (the Rocky Mountains), a box with gold and precious gems was hidden over ten years ago by Forrest Fenn, a millionaire art dealer. The clue to finding it was in his self-published book, on a page with a map and a poem. Over the years, four people died trying to find it and Fenn estimates 250,000 people have looked. Finally, the treasure box has been found!

Daniel Radcliffe Responds To J.K. Rowling In Essay

After J.K. Rowling once again took to Twitter saying transphobic things, Daniel Radcliffe responded to her and spoke to Harry Potter fans in an essay on the Trevor Project’s website, a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.

Harlem Mystery Writer Grace Edwards Has Passed Away

Grace Edwards published her first novel at the age of 55, In the Shadow of the Peacock, a historical coming-of-age set in Harlem in World War II. At 64 came the start of her mystery series following Mali Anderson–an ex-cop turned sociology student who can’t help but track down perps–with If I Should Die. She passed away in February at the age of 87.