Summary

Chapter 4 is a short chapter in which the producer notifies Arthur’s lawyer about his client’s death. The lawyer reviews Arthur’s will and many email exchanges. He discovers lose ends and reaches out to a friend of Arthur’s he met at a Hollywood party. The friend begins the process of notifying the ex-wives.

Chapter 5 introduces Miranda, one of Arthur’s ex-wives. She works for a shipping company and is looking at the ships lit up at night when she receives a phone call from Arthur’s friend Clark Thompson. She’s taken back by the news, having just seen Arthur two weeks earlier. When the call concludes, the reader learns that this occurs during the last month in which someone could telephone the other side of the world and reach someone else.

Chapter 6 reveals an “incomplete list” of things...