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- - - So, it s summer and you re ready for some escapist reading. But what? Well, you need look no further than Margalit Fox s enthralling The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History. As Fox writes in a one-sentence summary, during World War I two British officers Elias Henry Jones and Cedric Waters Hill escaped from an isolated Turkish prison camp by means of a Ouija board. In essence, the pair convinced both the camp s general factotum, whom they nicknamed the Pimple, and its Turkish commandant that they were in communication with an otherworldly spirit who knew the location of an immense buried fortune. Having excited the greed of their captors, Jones and Hill next persuaded them that the final clue to the treasure s whereabouts could only be revealed after the two mediums, along with the Pimple and the commandant, made their way to the busy seacoast near Constantinople. I ll say no more about their ingenious scheme, ex

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