On her deathbed, the beautiful socialite Babe Paley made a confession that was so dark it shocked the room into silence. From the time she was in the cradle, Babe...
Baroness Nica Rothschild ruled over the Stanhope Hotel in New York City, but people didn’t realize she kept disturbing secrets locked up in her rooms. One rainy night in 1955,...
History paints Mary, Princess Royal, as squeaky clean, but one wedding invitation from her niece, the future Queen Elizabeth, triggered a response that stained her flawless record forever. Mary, Princess...
Princess Marina lost her husband, Prince George, in a plane crash during World War II. But 26 years later, she had to face her own mortality. In 1968, her doctors...
The padlock was already on the gate. It was October 1959 and the morning was coming in cold and flat across Reno County, Kansas. The way October always did out...
March 1956 Kingman, Arizona, a diner on old Route 66, 9 miles east of the Colorado River crossing at the foot of the Black Mountains where the highway begins its...
September 1960 Harlan Kentucky, a watch and jewelry repair shop on Central Street, two blocks from the courthouse, where the Cumberland mountains press in close on every side, and the...
October 1957, Pratt, Kansas, a wheat farm 11 miles northwest of town on County Road K, where the land flattens to its final Kansas flatness and the sky takes over...
October 1959 Prescott, Arizona A saloon on Gurley Street one block west of the Yavapai County Courthouse and two blocks from the post office where the deed to this building...
May 1959, KC Wyoming, a cattle ranch on the middle fork of the Powder River 12 miles south of town where the Big Horn Mountains fill the western sky and...