Back in September, the weekend Hurricane Helene destroyed my town, I was off in Charleston at a book event where John Lennon’s lawyer was talking about his latest book.

It was a fascinating story, and since we’re both guys from the New York area who relocated late in life to the American South, we hit it off.

Jay Bergen later visited Asheville to do an event at the authors-in-conversation book chat my wife runs in our town. Jay was a hit, mostly because he’s a great raconteur and his book—about the intellectual property suit in which he defended John Lennon against a mobster—reveals him to be an equally fine writer.

I’m talking about his story today at SleuthSayers, the mystery blog, which is right up our alley, seeing as…