Somewhere in the elegance of Beekman Place, the stone refuge of the very rich, she lay naked and sprawled across an heirloom of a bed in the grotesque position of sudden and violent death. She was beautiful Patsy Burton Lonergan, 22-year-old wife, mother--and sole heiress to seven million dollars. She had been bludgeoned to death with a heavy brass candlestick handsomely inlaid with green glass. The room was a shambles. The following...