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Savannah: A town called midnight

It’s 15 years since John Berendt’s book Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil brought the charms of Savannah, Georgia, to an international audience.

His bestseller about a lurid local murder made a celebrity of this Southern town with its sultry summers, elegant mansions and shaded squares lined with oaks dripping with Spanish moss.