"Mary Pinchot Meyer was a longtime lover of John F. Kennedy. She was also the ex-wife of a CIA chief and the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. She was a painter, a socialite, and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War who believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. She also ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK's assassination. The diary she kept was never found. Until now..."--Back cover....

With their park view and old-fashioned detail, the Victorian houses on San Francisco's Steiner Street were highly valuable. But with their wooden construction, they were also highly vulnerable. So when Paul Hanover's multimillion-dollar home went up in flames, it was all over very quickly. And when the bodies of Hanover and his girlfriend were found in the charred debris, it appeared that the end came even more quickly for them-judging from the bullet...