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Topic: Mysteries

The Elephant in the cave (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supercomputer under the zoo vanishes

Amy Madigan and Eric Dane in "Grey Lady" (Beacon Pictures)

Review: "Grey Lady"

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Mass die-off stumps experts

Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy in "Child 44" (Summit Entertainment)

Putin hates this film

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Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's highest peak (Raphael Ramirez Lee/Shutterstock)

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Even more mysterious holes

Léa Drucker and Mathieu Amalric in "The Blue Room."

A French "Gone Girl" remix?

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Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck in "Gone Girl" (Twentieth Century Fox)

"Gone Girl": Marriage hell

Great women crime novelists

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in "Sherlock" (BBC)

Why we're addicted to mystery

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Solving cold cases online

In defense of true crime

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Sean Connery as James Bond

Bond and Jeeves are back!

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Colin Lecher - Popular Science

Hall of Supreme Harmony, Forbidden City
Records show ancient Chinese workers pulled the 300-ton center stone in this famous staircase over man-made roads of ice. (Image courtesy of Chui Hu)

Francie Diep - Popular Science

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Elmore Leonard (AP/Paul Sancya)

Why Elmore Leonard matters

Sarah Weinman

Grandmothers of "Gone Girl"

Murder, Victorian Style

Noir for a new age

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