Clark been dead all these years he worked for her? But he had a newspaper clipping about the sale at auction of a $23.5 million Renoir painting that came from “the estate of Huguette Clark.” The caretaker was puzzled. This man had never met his employer of more than 20 years, Huguette Clark. Dedman located the house and coaxed forth its caretaker. The place had been unoccupied since it was purchased. He found a markdown in New Canaan, Conn., a house that had gone from $35 million to $24 million and had one very unusual feature, even more unusual than its room for drying draperies. Dedman Googled real estate listings in the astronomical range. In 2009 he and his wife were looking for a house outside New York City.
Dedman, a journalist, embarked on that exercise, he could not have guessed how right that phrase would be. The story of how the book “Empty Mansions” came to be, in the words of Bill Dedman, one of its two authors, begins with “an exercise in American aspiration.” And when Mr.
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