Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Part I: 1962–1998, Decades of Deception

1. The Locked Room

2. “Keep Shooting, Vultures!”

3. “Toodle-oo!”

4. Case #81128

5. The Final Verdict

6. The Disconnected

7. Cursum Perficio

8. Answers and Questions

9. Odd Men Out

10. The Paper Chase

11. The Ambulance Chase

12. Tumblers of Truth

13. Déjà Vu

14. Explosive Revelations

Part II: 1926–1946, Gemini Child

15. Silent Witness

16. Runnin’ Wild

17. Into the Abyss

18. The Mouse

19. Norma Jeane, the Human Bean

20. Lucky Jim

21. Did You Happen to See…?

22. This Way Out

23. Los Angeles Limited

24. Nymph Errant

25. “MM…”

Part III: 1946–1954, All the Bright Colors

26. Rara Avis—With Options

27. Smog

28. Beauty and the Beast

29. The Ways of the Cross

30. Golden Dreams

31. Red Scare

32. Fame

33. Red-Eye

Part IV: 1955–1959, The Danger of All Dreams

34. Zelda Zonk

35. Pink Elephants

36. A Madness to the Method

37. Black Bart and Grushenka

38. Tempus Fugit

39. Mazel Tov!

40. Bashert!

41. Please Don’t Kill Anything

42. Every Day I Have the Blues

43. Nobody’s Perfect

44. On the Ledge

Part V: 1960–1962, Rainbow’s End

45. Let’s Make Love

46. The Jack Pack

47. Snake Eyes

48. The Blues

49. Left Coast

50. The Lady of Shallot

51. Zona Rosa

52. The Hand of God

53. The White Knight

54. Thanks for the Memory

55. Hell Hath No Fury Like…

56. The Method to the Madness

57. Checkmate

58. The Devil’s Weekend

59. The Ominous Ear

60. Night Terrors

Photographic Insert

Appendix

Source Notes

Bibliography

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

About the Publisher