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Murder leaves a mark

2/27/2021

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When I learned that a colleague whom I'd worked with in my television journalism days had delved into a murder case, I was intrigued. When I learned that he'd uncovered indisputable facts revealing that Doris Duke, the richest woman in America, got away with the murder, I had to get the details.

Peter Lance's story first ran in Vanity Fair, and I couldn't put it down. Yet Peter took things further. His broader research went into a book --  Homicide at Rough Point  -- that makes for even more compelling reading.

This space is usually reserved for my own musings -- the ideas that inspire me, the work that drives me. Yet Peter Lance's efforts reflect a particular aspect of the writer's craft that often goes unheralded: the legwork.

When I finally pick up a pen or put my fingers on a keyboard, I've spent weeks or months doing research and surveys and tests and analysis to guide me toward the quintessential truth about my own or a client's objective. Get it right, and it helps to create the desire to buy things. Or to solve an unsettling mystery whose suppression was something that money could buy.

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