Ridgewood's Mystery Man ; Harlan Coben Keeps Readers Guessing

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If the literary world had its own little United Nations, the headquarters could be the wood-paneled library of Harlan Coben's Ridgewood home. There, on the floor between the bookshelves and the pool table, Coben's international bestsellers peacefully coexist in one big heap.

"We're up to 37 languages now," the 6-foot-4 novelist says of the ever-growing number of translations of his thrillers.

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Ridgewood's Mystery Man ; Harlan Coben Keeps Readers Guessing

Holding up one book after another, Coben admittedly "not that good with language" says, "This, I know is Thai. ... This is Chinese. ... There's a Greek one here, too. ... That language I have absolutely no idea. ... This is German. This is probably Norwegian. Oh, wait. This is Finnish. ... Thi...

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