And the last entry in the book, dated the fourteenth of August 2024, eight weeks before she died, is four words long and it is not about Richard.

It says: Arthur knows.

Tell Chloe.

Part Thirty-Three: What It Was Worth

I took that notebook to Noreen Schatzberg on the ninth of January in a plastic sleeve, the way you carry something you have decided is a bomb.

And she read it for about twenty minutes and then handed it back and said: “This is worth almost nothing.”

I want to put her explanation in, because it is the most useful thing anybody told me in four months and because it is the opposite of what everybody assumes.

A notebook kept by a dead woman recording what her son said to her is hearsay.