Meanwhile, the rich backstory and mythology of the world Morgan spins is deep and mysterious, shedding some old tropes while building off others.

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Caf Nicholson -- Eccentric, Old World setting makes for romantic, mysterious mealing.

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The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.

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This is old-fashioned film noir, which in a romantic and mysterious ways toward the end, or certain part of the movie, you'll think you get lost in the mystery of the core of darkness.

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It might sound like something straight out of a Harry Potter movie, but a mysterious piece of rock salvaged from a 400-year-old wreck might turn out to be a legendary Viking "Sunstone" -- an ancient solar compass.

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But he is mysterious, has an exotic accent, is chivalrous in an old-fashioned way while also being clearly a huge flirt, has a dark past he wrestles with and is in a Twilight-Before-Twilight sexless relationship with Rogue.

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The first of these books is written by an American academic who investigated a mysterious outbreak of anthrax, a particularly lethal plague, in a remote corner of the old Soviet Union.

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