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Jane Stanton Hitchcock is the New York Times bestselling author of The Witches' Hammer, Trick of the Eye, Social Crimes, and One Dangerous Lady, as well as several plays. She lives with her husband, syndicated foreign affairs columnist Jim Hoagland, in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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