Two men who look alike and who both claim to be the Lord Lucan--a real person--who killed his children`s nanny in 1974, show up (separately) at the office of a psychiatrist named Dr. Hildegard Wolf. They attempt to blackmail her, threatening to reveal a grim secret from her past. The questions raised are many, but among them are: which of the men is really Lord Lucan? and are there really two men, or just one fiendishly clever one? and has he perhaps sold his soul to the devil? A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.