The rain came down in thin gray sheets over the Wiltshire road, turning the packed earth into a slick ribbon…
The clerk’s hand closed around two brass keys and slid them across the counter to a couple who’d never even…
The gavel was 3 seconds from falling. October 1956 Marshall County, Iowa 45 miles northeast of Des Moines on the…
The wind carried the smell of wet leaves and old smoke as Vivien Marlo walked the road home. Her boots…
The envelope was on the porch step when Ida May Greer opened her front door at 20 past 6 on…
October 1961, Hollywood, California. Batjack Productions, room 114. The desk was not glamorous. Scratched oak, three drawers that stuck in…
You needn’t have troubled yourself with all this, and I married you for your dowy, not your opinions. >> The…
The stranger rode in in with the sunset behind him and nobody in Caldwell Springs could tell where he’d come…
Las Vegas, the summer of 1971. Backstage at the International Hotel, an hour before the second show of the night….
Hollywood, 1965. On the Paramount Pictures lot, the afternoon light came in sideways through the tall sound stage doors. A…