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...most potent writing to be found in any mystery of recent months appears in Jonathan Valin's Extenuating Circumstances (Delacorte; 234 pages; $15.95). His detective, Harry Stoner, yet another of the shopworn ex-cops so beloved of the genre, is hired to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy politician and do-gooder. The missing man is found tortured to death. His killers: two boy prostitutes, one of whom was seeking a father figure, the other of whom scorned his client as a masochistic "beat freak." The who in this whodunit is known early in the story. Valin is more interested...
...Everyone in the whole bohemian preppie stoner set, who do the reggae Deadhead-tie-dye-long-hair-down-to-earth trip while they're here and then go to deb balls and work on Wall Street when they leave...
...tour with The Band in 1974 was not--small arenas, no set schedule, everybody doing their own songs, in short, a good time. The Rolling Thunder Band often had to make up in electricity what they lacked in technique, but when they cooked they cooked with gas, and Rob Stoner's bass lines and the spark of Scarlet Rivera's soaring violin often made you forget how muddy the drums were, and if they didn't Dylan and Joan Baez generally opened the second act with "Blowin' in the Wind," and if that didn't satisfy you had no right...
...works at a country club near Chicago. They base that theory-a matter of pure conjecture-on the sequence of Ray's various mentions of both Raoul and his brother in these accounts. They also note that Jerry much later became a driver and bodyguard for J.B. Stoner, of Savannah, Ga., a racist who publishes the National States Rights Party's ultra right-wing Thunderbolt magazine. The implication is that King's murder was some kind of far-right conspiracy...
...National States Rights Party, Cowan's outfit, claims some 20,000 members in 100 or more chapters. Experts place its membership at only 1,000, though its hate sheet, Thunderbolt, apparently prints 15,000 copies each month. Based in Marietta, Ga., the party is headed by Lawyer J.B. Stoner, a longtime bigot given to saying things like "There's no point in our going out and shooting Jews and niggers because we couldn't get rid of them that way. It has to be a national program...