Apart from an impressive collection of work by Paul Klee, which Dr Djerassi still treasures, much of the rest was sold to found an artists' colony to commemorate his daughter, Pamela, whose artistic career was cut short by suicide.

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Mr Wilson's mini-epic begins with the demise of the queen of the Trailhead Colony, whose death is not at first noticed by her daughter-followers.

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