Babe Levy, a history graduate student and marathon runner, is dragged into a deadly plot when his secret-agent brother Doc is killed by Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal who fled to South America with a fortune in diamonds.
Bud Corliss, a charming, ruthless young man determined to marry into the wealthy Kingship copper family, kills Dorothy Kingship when she becomes pregnant and later murders her sister Ellen when she investigates.
Joanna Eberhart, a photographer who moved with her family to the idyllic town of Stepford, discovers that the town’s Men’s Association is replacing the wives with obedient robot copies.
William Kane, a Boston banker, and Abel Rosnovski, a Polish immigrant who built a hotel empire, spend decades as bitter enemies.
At Clarissa Dalloway’s evening party in London, she hears that a young war veteran she never met, Septimus Warren Smith, has killed himself by jumping from a window to escape his doctors.
Quoyle, a clumsy newspaperman whose life fell apart after his unfaithful wife Petal died in a car crash, moves with his daughters to his family’s ancestral home in Newfoundland.
Tom Wingo, who came to New York to help his twin sister Savannah after her suicide attempt, finally tells her psychiatrist, Dr.
Conrad Jarrett, a teenager recovering from a suicide attempt after his older brother Buck drowned in a boating accident, finally accepts that the death was not his fault with help from his psychiatrist, Dr.
