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along with bloomsbury press and the main bloomsbury division. and we are one of them. >> how long have you been with walker books spewers i've been with with walker since 1993. as a publisher of walker, and then became the publishing director of bloomsbury u.s.a. last sumr. so that's much more recent development. but i've been involved with walker for the past, what is it now? 18 -- 15 years, 16 years. >> so what books are you excited about this whole? >> a couple of walker books, a book called "an artist in treason" by a man called andro linklater who wrote a book force a few years ago. is the story of the greatest traitor in american history, but it would've a complex man named james wilkinson who was a revolutiary war hero, in general, younger generation the continental army who became the leading general in the american army, 15 years later at the same time he became aged 13 and a spanish secret service and was asked by forcing for the next 20 years at the same time as he led the american army. but the amazing thing was every president he wo
along with bloomsbury press and the main bloomsbury division. and we are one of them. >> how long have you been with walker books spewers i've been with with walker since 1993. as a publisher of walker, and then became the publishing director of bloomsbury u.s.a. last sumr. so that's much more recent development. but i've been involved with walker for the past, what is it now? 18 -- 15 years, 16 years. >> so what books are you excited about this whole? >> a couple of walker...
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did you say the actual name of the town, bloomsbury.t. >> i have something here -- a receipt here that says bloomsbury. and at that point he said, what's the date? i gave him the date. and it was total silence on the other end of the phone. >> i remember we looked around. i looked at my colleagues at that point. the focus of the investigation changed, obviously. >> reporter: there it was, a receipt -- a purchase for a radar detector from a truck stop. just a scrap of paper, but it was a very promising lead for new jersey detectives trying to solve the murder of monica massaro. that receipt was proof that the man who had attacked shea mcdunough in massachusetts had been in new jersey one day earlier at a truck top down the block from monica's home on the very nig police believe she had died. it sounds like you're watching a "csi" and they say bloomsbury and they say, wow, i can't believe it happened. this is the need until the hay stack. >> it is. >> reporter: while the receipt put him in monica's town around the time of her death, it di
did you say the actual name of the town, bloomsbury.t. >> i have something here -- a receipt here that says bloomsbury. and at that point he said, what's the date? i gave him the date. and it was total silence on the other end of the phone. >> i remember we looked around. i looked at my colleagues at that point. the focus of the investigation changed, obviously. >> reporter: there it was, a receipt -- a purchase for a radar detector from a truck stop. just a scrap of paper,...
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. >> also joining us, peter ginna, what is the difference between bloomsbury press and bloombury usa? >> bloombury press is a small inprint that is devoted entirely to serious nonfiction. we have a lot of history, politics, biography, the current events, economics and finance an icon of things otis much less general and more focused than the bloombury list which is a general audience. >> would you have coming out this fall that you are excited about? >> this one called half moon. henry hudson redrew the map of the new world. this september's the 14th anniversary of hudson's discovery of the river that bears his name and his exploration of new york harbor and that was an adventure that really change the course of history in north america. plausive varied daring bush for a lot of reasons. the first one being that he was supposed to be going completely in the other direction, commission to sell to china over the northern coast of russia and he sort of took a left turn and came to north america instead which led him to his discoveries here and his exploration of the river. the author, dea
. >> also joining us, peter ginna, what is the difference between bloomsbury press and bloombury usa? >> bloombury press is a small inprint that is devoted entirely to serious nonfiction. we have a lot of history, politics, biography, the current events, economics and finance an icon of things otis much less general and more focused than the bloombury list which is a general audience. >> would you have coming out this fall that you are excited about? >> this one called...