I’ve noted this before, but in case the casual reader assumes this is just senility kicking in - after all, the man is 82 - he has written and published at least six novels during this time period, giving cogent interviews throughout. Furst told police he wanted the incident documented. The author Alan Furst filed a report on April 5 stating that “a man named William” had contacted him demanding that he stop writing his latest novel, which concerns the D-Day invasion of World War II. Furst said he thinks he knows who did it, but he declined to give a name, because it “could interfere with his own personal investigation.”

Both calls concerned his current manuscript:Īlan Furst told police he suspects someone stole a page from the new book he is writing while he was asleep the night before. But it was a quiet summer for Furst, who called the cops only twice this year.

Since at least 2014, the prolific spy novelist Alan Furst has been regularly phoning up the village police to report incidents that frankly sound ripped from an Alan Furst novel. Who did Alan Furst call the cops on this year? Which brings me to my favorite annual investigation … It seemed suspicious, she told police, who reported that the letter appeared to be ‘an attempt to reconnect nature.’”Īt least she opened the package: Last summer, Sag Harbor’s most famous writer in residence called the cops for a variety of package-related complaints - first to complain that a cardboard box had been left in his driveway and later, somewhat confusingly, to report that a FedEx truck had driven by without dropping anything off. 29, an 80-year-old Cooper Lane woman brought in a letter from a man she’d known briefly but hadn’t heard from in 50 years. There were a few mail-related calls last summer of note, including a man who reported that a suspicious package had been left by his mailbox containing “what appeared to be a child’s nightlight and a note calling him ‘inconsiderate.’”Įven considerate letters prompted 911 calls: “On Aug. Benard tried to return the hat, but was apparently not successful, her husband said, as Pearl has continued to leave aggressive messages. Pearl never picked up the hat, he said, and now she’s been leaving “multiple aggressive messages” for his wife, demanding that the hat be returned or she’d call the police. That novel sounds like a true story, but this true story sounds more like a novelīack in June, a woman named Pearl left a hat in a bar, and his wife took it home for safekeeping, Emmanuele Benard told police last week. There was the man who told police that “despite his multiple attempts to ban her from his property, his former mother-in-law continues to turn up there,” and the woman who called because she wanted it on record that “her East Hampton fiancé’s daughters had been ‘talking bad about her to the family.’” Let the record show that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. It turns out a lot of Hamptons residents will call the cops on a family member. Where else would a noise complaint actually be Ed Sheeran’s private backyard concert? Or a 32-year-old’s temper tantrum over an $855 restaurant bill conclude with his mother calling with a credit card and the cops giving him a ride home? I’ve been vocal about my love of the paper’s crime section - I genuinely think it’s the best publication on earth - and this season’s roundup of offenses did not disappoint. Police described this as a situation that has been repeated for years. The man consented, but called police Friday morning to say that she wouldn’t leave. For anyone wondering what exactly happened in the book’s ambiguous ending, my best guess is something along the lines of this real-life police call, summarized by the East Hampton Star:Ī woman whom police described as “basically homeless” showed up at her ex-husband’s house on Redwood Road recently and asked if she could stay for a few days. This past summer, everyone in the Hamptons was reading the Emma Cline novel The Guest, but apparently at least one unlucky man in the Hamptons was living The Guest. Photo-Illustration: Curbed Photos: The East Hampton Star

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