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TRUMAN CAPOTE was a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books include “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood.” CALVIN TRILLIN has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1963. Among his books are “An Education in Georgia” and “Messages from My Father.” JOAN DIDION has contributed to The New Yorker since 1988. Her books include “Play It as It Lays,” “The White Album,” and “The Year of Magical Thinking.” JO ANN BEARD is an award-winning essayist and writer. She is the author of “In Zanesville” and “The Boys of My Youth.” DAVID GRANN has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2003. He is the author of “The Devil and Sherlock Holmes” and “The Lost City of Z.” PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a…

FROM THE JUNE 24 & JULY 1, 1996, ISSUE The collie wakes me up about three times a night, summoning me from a great distance as I row my boat through a dim, complicated dream. She’s on the shoreline, barking. Wake up. She’s staring at me with her head slightly tipped to the side, long nose, gazing eyes, toenails clenched to get a purchase on the wood floor. We used to call her the face of love. She totters on her broomstick legs into the hallway and over the doorsill into the kitchen, makes a sharp left at the refrigerator— careful, almost went down—then a straightaway to the door. I sleep on my feet in the cold of the doorway, waiting. Here she comes. Lift her down the two steps.…

FROM THE FEBRUARY 11 & 1 8, 2013, ISSUE Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, sat down at the conference table just moments before the faculty meeting began. It was three o’clock on February 12, 2010, and thirteen professors and staff members in the biology department had crowded into a windowless conference room on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology. The department chair, a plant biologist named Gopi Podila, distributed a printed agenda. Bishop was sitting next to him, in a spot by the door. Inside her handbag was a gun. Bishop was forty-five, with a long, pale face framed by dark hair that she wore in a pageboy, her bangs slashed just above her small blue eyes. She was…

FROM THE DECEMBER 13, 2004, ISSUE Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes, believed that he had finally solved the case of the missing papers. Over the past two decades, he had been looking for a trove of letters, diary entries, and manuscripts written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Holmes. The archive was estimated to be worth nearly four million dollars, and was said by some to carry a deadly curse, like the one in the most famous Holmes story “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” The papers had disappeared after Conan Doyle died, in 1930, and without them no one had been able to write a definitive biography—a task that Green was determined to complete. Many scholars feared that the archive had been discarded…

FROM THE FEBRUARY 14, 2000, ISSUE On November 15, 1944, an Army deserter named Frank Gilbert Koehler was arrested for burglary in New York City. Frankie, as he liked to be called, had no criminal record. He had walked off his post at Fort Dix, New Jersey, after suffering unsustainable financial reversals in a crap game, and when it was discovered that he was fifteen years old, and had lied about his age in order to enlist, he was sent to Childrens Court, declared a juvenile delinquent, and returned to military control. Six months later, Koehler— AWOL again, and for good—shot and killed a sixteen-year-old boy in an abandoned building on West Twenty-fourth Street. The next day; he surrendered to a policeman on a street corner, and was taken to…