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November 19, 2009

Tom Clancy's new $12.6 million home

Tom Clancy, the king of techno-thrillers, is cashing in some of the spoils from his remarkable writing career with the purchase of a $12.6 million penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton Residences on Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The nearly 12,000-square-foot residence was originally three separate penthouses, combined at Clancy's request, according to a story today in The Baltimore Sun. The penthouse has four bedrooms, six balconies with harbor views and 6 1/2 bathrooms. Features include a private theater and three "semi-private" elevators, and it's as big as five typical new U.S. houses.

Clancy lives in rural Maryland, and will keep a residence there, but has long had ties to the city -- even helping Peter Angelos buy the Baltimore Orioles in 1993. Photos of Clancy's new home aren't available, but here's a gallery of the Ritz-Carlton project.

Durn. Why didn't I take that course "Writing techno-thrillers 101" in college?

AP photo from 2004

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 12:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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12,000 square feet? Can that be right? And, at $12.6M, that's really only a little over $1,000/square foot. Wow.

Posted by: Eve | November 20, 2009 1:33 PM

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

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