A few years ago, I was contacted by the friend of a friend of a friend. He had a strange request: Could you help this French guy find the descendants of a soldier killed in World War I? What the hell? Why me? “For god’s sake, you can find anybody,” he said. “You speak English.…Read More…
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep (Knopf) is actually two parallel stories: One about a real-life 1970s murder mystery, and the other about a beloved author’s frustrated dream to write her own version of her friend Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.” Lee was uncomfortable with Capote’s “nonfiction…Read More…
At dinner recently with an IT professional, the conversation drifted into our inexorable plunge toward the mass retailing of our privacy—from intimate data collected by smartphones, Alexa, and your own TV to the government and corporate seizure of utterly innocent people’s DNA profiles. Soon, everything you know, everything you want, everything you talk about, everywhere…Read More…
Every Memorial Day I will speak his name. New at www.ronfranscell.com
This boy died far away for a country that wasn’t his, by Ron Franscell
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He was just a kid. Most assuredly, he has nobody who remembers him today. I wish they could hold this intimate little piece of metal that he once touched.
The mystery of Harper Lee’s lost true-crime book, by Ron Franscell
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Lee wasn’t a crime newbie. She had helped Truman Capote research ‘In Cold Blood.’ But many demons kept her from succeeding on this one
https://amazon.com/Alice-Gerald-Homicidal-Love-Story/dp/…A grate music video from one of the gratest singer of the story…