Summary

Chapter 28. One evening while she is in the bath, she hears someone enter the apartment. She hears them walk into her bedroom and thinks that it is Chuck. But she finds the historian/critic Fraser Buchanan stealing her latest Costume Gothic manuscript. She confronts him and he tells her that he has all of the sordid details of her life as Louisa K. Delacourt and her affair with Chuck Brewster. She steals Fraser’s black notebook that contains all of his research about different celebrities.

Chapter 29. Joan enlists Sam and Marlene in an elaborate scheme to help her leave the country by faking her death. She tells Sam and Marlene that the cops have been loitering around the car that supposedly holds the dynamite. She convinces them to not tell Arthur so that he can act genuinely surprised by her death. The plan goes accordingly...