Hints and tips:
...In 1927, Finnish radio personality Markus Rautio (aka “Uncle Marcus”) declared on air that Santa’s workshop had been discovered in Lapland’s Korvatunturi, or “Ear Mountain”, a remote peak on the Russian...
...The label acquired some high-profile fans — Margaux Hemingway, Princess Diana, Marianne Faithfull. There were more shows, bigger dockets and the stakes grew ever higher....
...Marcus Samuelsson, the Ethiopian-born, Sweden-raised celebrity chef who is seated nearby, opened this Nordic/soul-food joint in 2010....
...Isaac Bartelle owns a liquor store at the edge of the low country near Hemingway, South Carolina....
...Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet, Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia and Gwendoline Riley’s Opposed Positions....
...More nuanced is the portrait of Tony Marcus, who runs all Boston’s black rackets ruthlessly but with whom Spenser co-operates when their interests coincide....
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