Arthur Jay Harris

Flowers for Mrs. Luskin (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Deep into the then biggest-dollar divorce in the history of Broward County, Florida, in which she's winning everything so far, Mrs. Luskin gets an unexpected flower delivery of cheap azaleas at the mansion she'd kicked her husband out of after he'd had an affair with his high-school girlfriend. Behind the pastel pistils comes a gleaming silver pistol. The man screams it's a robbery, he just wants her money. She tells police that he hit her in the head with the gun, but federal prosecutors later insist she was shot and grazed by a bullet, although no bullet was ever found and the room was mirrored on four sides. On that hinges the husband's conviction for attempted murder-for-hire conspiracy. He goes to prison for 15 years and marries his high-school girlfriend, but was he guilty? It turns out that the prosecutors at trial had held back evidence proving their star witness had crucially lied. But were prosecutors otherwise basically right, only that someone else who they hadn't charged -- not the husband -- was behind it all?

Flowers for Mrs. Luskin was originally published by Avon Books.

Story appeared as the cover story of newspaper magazines in The Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, and Orlando Sentinel.

Tropic Magazine The Miami Herald: THE DIVORCE FROM HELL A Millionaire Has An Affair. His Wife Throws Him Out. She Gets The Mansion, The Business, The Cash. His Parents' Business. His Parents' Cash. She Gets Shot And Doesn't Know It. The Bullet Disappears. He Goes To Prison. His Parents Flee The Country. He Weds The Other Woman Behind Bars. Has There Ever Been A Case Like This? Sun Magazine The Baltimore Sun: DIVORCE, DOWN AND DIRTY A story of money, passion, violence and vengeance This was a marriage that seemingly couldn't get worse. Then came a bumbling Baltimore hood bearing a gift. Globe Magazine: THE ONE-NIGHT STAND FROM HELL A few hours of passion cost bigshot Paul his millions, his mansion, his family, his friends -- & his freedom! A WARNING TO EVERY HUSBAND IN AMERICA! FATCAT: Paul Luskin in his glory days with former President Reagan ENEMIES: Luskin's wife Marie declared war after finding out about the one-night stand LOVERS: Luskin and Susan were high school sweethearts who rekindled their romance years later. They got married after he was sentenced to prison THE WOMAN WHO STOLE HIS HEART!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301564163
• Artikelnr.: 51201800

Autorenporträt

True crime writers primarily pursue the question "Why?" Why did somebody commit the crime? How could he get away with it for so long? In my true crime books, I pursue a different primary question: about the case's outcome, I ask, "Are you sure?" Every true crime story has loose ends that naggingly just don't fit into the constructed narrative. They make for a challenge: stay with your narrative and ignore or play them down, or follow them and risk your narrative. There is an essential messiness to true crime that a reader of it must both resist and embrace. But that's why we read it, right? If you want everything well-tied up at the end, read crime fiction. To start, give up on the idea that a story must have a bottom. How can there not be a bottom? Yes, theoretically there is a bottom, but to us on the outside looking in, it's just not accessible. In reality, what we think are story bottoms are really false bottoms; beneath them, if we dare to look, are more bottoms. That wisdom, I should add, did not come to me easily. My stories are always less about the crimes themselves than my endurance to stay on the rollercoaster rides to find the truth. Countless times I'm upended, and I never see it coming. Yet the job of a guide, narrator and investigator, such as myself, remains to organize that mess. However, I also scrutinize the work of the other guides, narrators, and investigators on the story. When I approach a story, I look for, then follow, significant pathways not taken: people who law enforcement couldn't get or weren't then ready to talk; witnesses who weren't asked everything important; and things the authorities were blind to or simply missed. Then there are the stories in which the official investigators suppressed facts. On those, I am unrelenting in pursuing public records (always politely, politeness is essential in all information gathering). In obscure files and from additional reporting based on them, I've discovered a few rare things that were never known outside of law enforcement. Always remember that to some extent, every interested party in a crime story is intentionally misleading us. They tell mostly true things but withhold or lie about other facts that are contrary to their interests. Trust only the people with no skin in the game not to intentionally mislead. In each of my books, I first bring you up to speed by composing the story from what's on the record, then I make a narrative switch to first person and have you follow my investigation. When I pick up the right trail, it becomes obvious. I always advance my stories, including Speed Kills and Until Proven Innocent, but the two books in which I made the most significant (and contrarian) contributions are Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh, and Flowers for Mrs. Luskin. And now, because it seems obligatory in such biographical summaries, among the television shows I have appeared on with my stories include: ABC Primetime; Anderson Cooper 360; Nancy Grace; Ashleigh Banfield; The Lineup; Inside Edition; Catherine Crier; Snapped; City Confidential; Cold Blood; and Prison Diaries.