He read Orange County like a book – Orange County Register
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For nearly 30 years, customers stepped through the door of Book Carnival and into a world created by owner Ed Thomas, a place where hard-boiled detectives, tea-sipping sleuths and cagey cops pursued killers, cons and creeps. Fictionally, of course. Thomas was almost always behind the counter, open book in hand (he read the way other […]
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