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Decades later, the disappearance of Charley Ross still fascinates. Author Norman Zierold published an in-depth account of the case, entitled Little Charley Ross: The Shocking True Story of America's First Kidnapping for Ransom.The Philadelphia Inquirer declared that with this book “Zierold has done for kidnapping what Truman Capote did for murder.”
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