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I have just had a glance through the Summer 2019 issue of MHQ, which is a fine read. I must, however, point out an error in the Weapons Check article [...]

Novelist Kathryn Harrison's husband explains why her wife needs to write 'The Kiss.' He describes the advantages and disadvantages of the memoir, which tells the story of his wife's sexual affair with her father.

Byline: Colin Harrison New York City attracts the very people most likely to be ruined by scandal: men and women who rise in society by virtue of their smarts, ambition, [...]

Conclusion: The Last Conversation Each summer there's a moment when I feel fall coming. A cool afternoon breeze, the sound of dried sycamore leaves whisking along the walks in Riverside [...]

Chapter 14: A Life of Letters At last I'd discovered who Roger Corbett called minutes before his death: Anna Hewes, his father's longtime secretary back when Wilson Corbett was a [...]

Chapter 13: A Long Night Becomes a Fast Morning I was sitting in Eliska Sedlacek's Mulberry Street apartment with three men standing between me and the door. The hour was [...]

Chapter 10: A Walk in the Woods Each of us, I suspect, has a private list of the stupidest things we've ever done. Our most self-destructive, deluded or hurtful actions. [...]

Chapter 9: The Keeper of the Ornaments The young Czech hand model Eliska Sedlacek had asked me to help her retrieve five boxes of crudely molded Christmas ornaments and toy [...]

Chapter 8: The Hand Model's Tale Eliska Sedlacek wanted to talk again, and the anxiety in her voice suggested that she preferred to do it soon. I told her to [...]

Chapter 7: Dentist to the Stars Roger Corbett's 2008 appointment book began in the closing weeks of 2007. He'd blocked out a few days just after Christmas as ''kids at [...]

Chapter 6: Rocking Horses and Cowboy Boots Valerie Corbett, the never-not-curvaceous former wife of the late Roger Corbett, was in town to visit her mother-in-law, and I arranged to see [...]

The girlfriend of the late Roger Corbett, Eliska Sedlacek, finally phoned me at my office the next morning. But I was on a call. It was yet another case of [...]

Chapter 4: Five Shots in a Row In my line of work, defending an international commercial insurance company against fraudulent claims, we often deal with independent business owners who are, [...]

Chapter 3: The Czechoslovakia Lady You can find out a lot about a recently dead man on the Internet if you are willing to put in some time, even if [...]

Chapter 2: Roger Corbett's Last Misstep Mrs. Corbett's green envelope sat on our sideboard while my wife and I ate sushi for dinner. In it were the details about her [...]

Chapter 1: An Unexpected Call I've been asked to do a lot of difficult and unpleasant things over the years, and I've performed these tasks more or less without complaint, [...]

Robert Ludlum, whose novels have sold 290 million copies (more or less the population of the United States), knew what makes a successful thriller. And that, above all, is velocity. [...]

Mimi's Ghost By Tim Parks. 314 pp. New York: Arcade Publishing. $24.95. WHAT if Lucky Jim had carried a knife? Instead of making murderous faces, what if he actually killed [...]

Privacy in the age of information technology As the new century begins, at least 70 million Americans are using the Internet, each of them producing data as rapidly as he [...]

The GoodLife By Keith Scribner. 263 pp. New York: Riverhead Books. $23.95. Why is crime so fascinating? Because we suspect a secret criminal within? Because not much seems to separate [...]

Bunnies, Crocodiles, and Me Stories of Baby Beginnings. Edited by Frederic Houssin and Cedric Ramadier. Illustrated. 80 pp. New York: Harry N. Abrams. $14.95. (Ages 5 to 9) It's So [...]

THE EXPERIMENT By John Darnton. 421 pp. New York: Dutton. $24.95. We have always been fascinated by the doubled self. Although identical twins appear only four times in 1,000 births, [...]