Carl, only 55 but a Hamptons legend, was gone.
Suddenly, Carl had trouble breathing, and that was it. He was waiting for the "Cannonball," the Friday special that fetches the hedge fund husbands back from the big city to their gorgeous wives and well-scrubbed kiddies, aĪd come to life. Just the other evening, Carl of Carl's Taxi, the local taxicab mogul (with 12 cars working), was sitting behind the wheel at the East Hampton railroad station. The usual multimillion-dollar real estate deals, plus property line feuds, no fireworks for the Fourth and the death of a local legend. two great local newspaper families, and they're about to clash."Īnd with yet another Hamptons "season" now well underway, there's plenty of news to compete for and report about. Soon the two team up to investigate this catty crime in a fabulously entertaining romp through the Hamptons, replete with status battles, run-ins with the rich and famous-including Calvin Klein, Demi Moore and Barbara Streisand-and pretensions as high as the Hampton dunes.As Madison Avenue's Jerry Della Femina, a savvy observer of the local scene-with an oceanfront home and a weekly of his own, the tabloid Independent-told the Times, "It's a newspaper war. Competing for the story is beautiful British book editor Lady Alix Dunraven, feverishly searching for the tell-all manuscript Cutting was writing before she was killed. Dispatched to get the story for Parade magazine, journalist Beecher Stow returns to his family home on Further Lane to dissect Cutting's past. Though adored and emulated by millions, Hannah was the most despised woman in town. She even, it seems, has died with style-washed ashore naked near her East Hampton mansion with the take of a privet hedge driven through her heart. Everest or making the perfect gingerbread house, lifestyle guru Hannah Cutting, dubbed "America's Homemaker," does everything with style.
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