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Hobtown Regional High’s top girl Dana Nance runs The Teen Detective Club—a registered after school program—who make it their business to investigate each and every one of their town's bizarre occurrences. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChildhood friends Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes have built a truly unique and discrete universe in Hobtown—an exploration of Nova Scotian identity, drawing from the world of pulp, filtered through a lens of esoteric spirituality, skewed genre tropes, deft character work, and an incredible eye for detail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hobtown-mystery-stories-vol-1-the-case-of-the-missing-men","title":"Hobtown Mystery Stories  Vol. 1: The Case Of The Missing Men","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Hobtown, a charmingly bleak village (Population: 2,006) in the hinterlands of Nova Scotia, 1996. 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