And the musicians and their men were basking in the afterglow of the last chords in the immolation scene from something Teutonic. I had a certain amount of interest in the murky Maria Callas tape—which, I learned, had been secretly recorded in Dallas—but the scary German s...
We were a bit early to meet Karl Bonaventura, who was going to take us to his sister’s bizarrely preserved apartment. Tony was not impressed by my interview with Jack Tyre’s lover. “So what did you learn? That they made love in the park? That Jack was a bit weird?” &...
We were all in the herb garden, along with three neighborhood children who were garden helpers. Ava was holding something up and yelling out: “I know these things are killing the peppermint. I know these ugly creatures are going to destroy the whole garden before we get it...
Only one call had come in. One was enough. “The ballistics report has been submitted.” It was the soft, modulated voice of Frank Brodsky. “The bullet that killed Mr. Dobrynin on Christmas Eve was fired from the weapon found t...