Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood''s search for the late Duchess of Windsor. It is also a provocative exploration of the often bizarre connection between heightened celebrity and approaching death--in Blackwood''s words, "the fatal effects of myth." First serial to New York Times Magazine.

Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood''s search for the late Duchess of Windsor. It is also a provocative exploration of the often bizarre connection between heightened celebrity and approaching death--in Blackwood''s words, "the fatal effects of myth." First serial to New York Times Magazine.