is help, he figured the debt had simply been transferred.</p>
<p class="excerpttext">But Charlotte Thompson was nothing like his fourteen-year-old recollection of her. Nor was she the screen persona he&#8217;d come to know from the few films she&#8217;d made. The Charlotte that had come to see him was more of a caricature of her screen self, a cross between Diahnne Carroll and Eva Gabor. </p>
<p class="excerpttext">And the story she&#8217;d told him. Too bizarre to be believed. In the ten years he&#8217;d b