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COVER STORY
Detectives
Kurt Andersen and author Ayelet Waldman talk about the magnetism of mysteries.
  Mystery
Girl
The mystery novelist Laurie King picks up the Sherlock Holmes story where Arthur Conan Doyle left off. In "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" King pairs the famed detective with a sharp young female partner and raises skepticism about Holmes' superhuman genius. Produced by Jad Abumrad.
 Go
to Laurie King's official site
Go
to a Laurie King fan site
Go
to a Sherlock Homes info site
Morimur
Years of detective work by music scholar Helga Thoene
revealed secret messages in the solo violin music of Johann Sebastian
Bach. On the album, Morimur, violinist Christoph Poppen and the Hilliard
Ensemble interweave the newly discovered melodies with the existing violin
music -- with controversial results. Produced by Allison Lirish Dean
Go
to ECM Records page on Morimur
Go to Morimur/Hilliard Ensemble tour dates
Art Cops
Usually federal agents chase down stolen art. But on
the third floor of the Los Angeles Police Department, Detective Don Hrycyk
heads up the country's only municipal art theft detail. Produced by Jonathan
Mitchell.
Go
to LAPD's Art Theft Detail site
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Ayelet Waldman
is the author of the Mommy-track mysteries, "Nursery Crimes" and "The Big Nap" -- thrillers that mix child-rearing with sleuthing. She is an adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley and was a former public defender in Los Angeles. Her third mystery, A Playdate With Death, will be published this June.
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to Mommy Track Mysteries site
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Playing
The Laramie Project/The Matthew Shepard Story.
Two new TV movies -- on HBO and NBC -- tell the story of the brutal
beating and murder of a young gay man in Laramie, Wyoming. We take a
look at why audience and media interest in Matthew Shepard endures.
Produced by Dempsey Rice.
Go
to HBO's Laramie Project site
Go
to NBC's Matthew Shepard Story site
Go
to The Matthew Shepard Foundation
Pop Song Muses
Rock and roll's long love affair with that one special girl. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales and Steve Nelson.
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