What a pity my vintage Maud Frizon pumps didn’t come…
For most people the world over, Beverly Hills is a…
But before I picked up where Erle Stanley Gardner had…
The next morning I woke at dawn. I was in…
I knew the court transcript like the back of my…
Joseph Albacco smiled as he sat down, and I knew…
On the long drive home, Father Herlihy’s words reverberated in…
It was the Spanish colonizers of Alta California who, early…
The morning sun hit me square in the face. Bad…
I am a biographer. I understand people the way secretaries…
It had been four whole days since I’d had my…
As it turned out, Meredith Allan had left Ojai more…
My hostess gestured toward a plush red couch. Just as…
I heaved a sigh of relief to be out of…
I hated driving on the freeway at night. The glare…
Burnett called the next day just to say hello, and…
I’m useless with dead people. When I was sixteen, my…
It’s a sign of how well Lael knows me that…
It was close to seven A.M. when we got back…
If I had bothered to look at the return address,…
Call me crazy, but I had a feeling Jean’s lockbox…
I met Detective Peter Gambino (no relation to the crime…
I headed back to Tehachapi first thing the next morning.
I knew I’d have to see Meredith Allan again, but…
Wednesday morning. Another day in paradise. The birds were singing,…
My next stop was Bridget’s, back in town. I felt…
And precisely what was I supposed to think when the…
Given my recalcitrant technophobia, my spending the morning on the…
That was one too many coincidences. I’ve been around the…
Curiouser and curiouser. I tugged off my shoes, collapsed onto…
Burnett was up on a ladder, painting wings on fallen…
Cece? Can you hear me?”
Here’s the last box, Cece,” Mr. Grandy said, setting it…
Ellie, it’s Cece Caruso, I’m calling from my car. How…
Gambino took me to Buffalo to meet his parents. We…
Tomas, the default architect of Lael’s rabbit warren of a…
It was like watching a movie on fast forward.
Let’s say you’re Clark Gable, and you need a new…
That would be the roof.
I did finish my biography of Erle Stanley Gardner, by…