Ted Gioia:I’m not a Hollywood scriptwriter, but if I were...

Ted Gioia:

I’m not a Hollywood scriptwriter, but if I were, I know what screenplay I’d write. Imagine a violent murder at the epicenter of early Santa Clara Valley — soon to be renamed Silicon Valley in the popular imagination — and an innocent man sent to Death Row at San Quentin. But a famous literary critic emerges as the super sleuth who gets him freed, amid dark evocations of scandal involving corrupt politicians and murky underworld figures.

What a story.