The Elixir of Immortality

An ancient family who has passed down instructions to achieving eternal life for centuries faces extinction when its last descendant realizes he has no heirs to whom he can entrust the secret.

Star-Struck in Nebraska

November 19: “It struck me that Basil couldn’t be a name-dropper; these were the people he knew and worked with. It was his world. And oh, God, how I wanted to be a part of it.”  

Newdunnits

“A 1926 whodunit by Agatha Christie has been named the best crime novel ever written by her fellow crime writers. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, one of the first Christie books to feature Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, topped a poll held to mark the 60th...