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Chapter 1
The sun glinted on the elegant mansard roof of The
Cottage, as Abe Braunstein drove around the last bend
in the seemingly endless driveway. The sight of the
imposing French manor would have taken his breath
away, if the driver had been anyone but Abe. It was a
spectacular home, and he had been there dozens of
times before. The Cottage was one of the last leg-
endary homes of Hollywood. It was reminiscent of
the palaces built by the Vanderbilts and Astors in
Newport, Rhode Island, at the turn of the century. This
one was in the style of an eighteenth-century French
chateau and was opulent, handsome, graceful, exqui-
site in every aspect of its design. It had been built for
Vera Harper, one of the great stars of silent movies, in
1918. She had been one of the few early stars to con-
serve her fortune, had married well more than once,
and had lived there until she died at a ripe old age in
1959. Cooper Winslow had bought it from her estate a
year later. She had had no children and no heirs, and
had left everything she had, including The Cottage, to
the Catholic Church. He had paid a handsome sum for
it even then, because his career had been booming at
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