Went to see a lovely play at the Geffen last week, Mysterious Circumstances, starring Alan Tudyk as Richard Green and…Sherlock Holmes. One scene especially resonated with me, as Holmes scholar Green is shaken by the sudden rejection and ejection from his fandom by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, sir Arthur’s youngest daughter and heir. Memories abounded…turning the page back to 1983…
Sammy Greene is a radio talk show host who has been invited to spend a summer in Greece with her old friend and his family, Gus Pappajohn. Gus is a retired cop who lives in Boston. Sammy currently lives in Los Angeles but is relocating to a new radio job in New York.
The dreams blanketed Helen with increasing frequency. Aunt Mollie was one of the first, then Bella, then Olga, one by one in the order of their death. When the welcoming arms reaching out of the brightly lit doorway became her mother’s, Helen struggled to turn away, waking up shivering in the darkness of the bedroom she had once shared with her beloved husband.
