Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Epigraph
6. Part One: The Story
   1. Morning of Generals
   2. 2018: Apthorp House
   3. The Fable
   4. James and Iva
   5. The Body
   6. It Begins
   7. Secrets
   8. The Cops Arrive
   9. Departures
   10. Initial Questioning
   11. Karl
   12. Red Ochre
   13. First Contact
   14. Colonialism’s Handmaiden
   15. The Ritual
   16. Stephen Williams and Detective Halliday
   17. Keep the Dead Close
   18. The Peabody
   19. Speaking of Silences
   20. Blackout
   21. Dancing with Ghosts
7. Part Two: The Girl
   1. 2018: Who Would You Rather Have It Be?
   2. Funeral
   3. True Crimson
   4. Jane
   5. Do You Follow Me
   6. Jane and Jim
   7. Radcliffe Memories
   8. Real Estate
   9. Elisabeth
   10. Jane at Radcliffe
   11. Back with Elisabeth
   12. Every Bad Thing You Know About Her
   13. What’re You So Afraid Of?
   14. Boyd
   15. Fragments of Jane
   16. First Talk with Boyd
   17. Vietnam
   18. Ed Franquemont
   19. Cultural Amnesia
   20. Face the Night
   21. Websleuths
   22. A Mystery Man
   23. Reunion
8. Part Three: The Rumor
   1. 2018: Five Days
   2. Arthur Bankoff
   3. Tepe Yahya
   4. The Loop
   5. General Exams
   6. Ingrid Kirsch Police Interrogation
   7. Such a Toad
   8. Ruth Tringham
   9. Richard Meadow
   10. Dan Potts
   11. The Day of Jane’s Death: Karl’s Point of View
   12. Puzzle Pieces
   13. Ingrid Kirsch, Police Interrogation, Continued
   14. Christine Lesniak
   15. A Second Cipher
   16. Physical Evidence
   17. Karl at Police Headquarters
   18. Paul de Man
   19. Clifford A. Rockefeller
   20. Thresholds of Irritation
   21. Karl’s Police Interrogation
   22. Franklin Ford
9. Part Four: The Myth
   1. 2018: Miami
   2. Iva Houston
   3. She’d Have to Not Be a Woman
   4. Sadie Weber
   5. Richard Meadow
   6. Professor Karkov
   7. The Grand Jury
   8. Spotlight
   9. The New Suspect
   10. The Incense Night
   11. The Deluge
   12. Sleuths
   13. The Second Incident
   14. The Cape Lifts
   15. The Dead. The Near-dead. The Just-dead.
   16. Hawaii
   17. Lieutenant Joyce’s Letter
   18. The Cambridge Police
   19. Final Days in Hawaii
   20. Erasure and Artifacts
   21. Jane’s Letter to Elisabeth
   22. Boyd in Person
   23. Family Silence
   24. For Boyd R. Britton from JBB
   25. Jane Britton Family Files
   26. Lie Detector Test
   27. Karl in Person
   28. Wrestling
10. Part Five: The Echo
    1. 2018: Land in Boston
    2. Belief Vertigo
    3. Richard Michael Gramly
    4. Mickey
    5. A Scholar of Remains
    6. The Three Suspects
    7. On the Dig
    8. Mary McCutcheon
    9. The Road Trip
    10. The Golden Girls
    11. Anne Abraham
    12. The Second Call
    13. The Anne Abraham Rescue Operation
    14. Don Mitchell and Sergeant Sennott
    15. Birthday Cake
    16. Come Out of the Dark Earth
    17. The Investigation
11. Part Six: The Legacy
    1. 2018: Something Has Been Settled
    2. Stephen Loring
    3. Monte Alto
    4. Stephen Loring, Continued
    5. Chatter in Cambridge
    6. Anne Moreau
    7. Last Will and Testament of Lee Allen Parsons
    8. Confession Chain
    9. How Odd and Strange
    10. Who Is the Ghost Here
    11. Toronto
    12. November 1968
    13. Jim Humphries
    14. Jane’s Last Day
    15. Richard Rose
    16. City Island
    17. January 14, 1969: Lee Parsons Police Interrogation
    18. Will You Accept This
    19. January 14, 1969: Lee Parsons Police Interrogation, Continued
12. Part Seven: The Resolution
    1. July 31, 2018: Stop the Fairy Land
    2. August 16, 2018: Boyd’s Birthday Eve
    3. August 16, 2018: Late
    4. Reckonings
    5. August 17, 2018: Tell No Man
    6. September, October 2018: Waiting and Waiting and Waiting
    7. Kimberly Theidon
    8. September 9, 2018: The Tree
    9. October 28, 2018: He Escapes Who Is Not Pursued
    10. November 2018: Shifts
    11. Reactions
    12. November 20, 2018: Press Conference
    13. The Files
    14. January 14, 1969: Lee Parsons Interrogation
    15. Unsatisfied
    16. Giacoppo
    17. Crumbs
    18. Mythmaking
    19. December 2018: Karl
    20. Reconstruction
    21. Jane Sanders Britton
13. Acknowledgments
14. Discover More
15. Notes
16. About the Author
17. Reading Group Guide

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