Goodreads asked Peter Lance:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Peter Lance When I started my career as a cub reporter for The Newport, RI Daily News - a summer job for which I earned $50.00 a week - the town was buzzing with rumors that Doris Duke, 3rd richest woman in the world, had gotten away with murder and "bought off the town" after killing Eduardo Tirella, who had been her principal art curator and designer, in an auto crash outside the gates of Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate. At the time I lacked the skill or time to investigate, but starting in 2018 after I saw a replay of then Pres. Trump's boast that he could "shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue" and not lose any votes, I decided to go back and work the case. It took me two years to prove that Doris killed Eduardo with intent, then conspired with the local police to cover it up. The story turned out to be Shakespearean in dimensions in that she crushed him to death just moments after he told her he was leaving her employ to return to Hollywood where his design career was amping up. He was 42 years old and has just finished the design work for THE SANDPIPER starring Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. He was halfway through a new a film starring his close friend Sharon Tate. So, in effect Doris Duke killed Eduardo on "the night before the rest of his life." If you visit peterlance.com you'll see that the cover up continues.

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