'Rockefeller’ Book Author Speaking at Vroman’s Wednesday Night

Mark Seal, author of The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, a new book about the life of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who assumed many identities and is , is discussing and signing the book at Vroman’s in Pasadena tonight. The event begins at 7 p.m.

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, the result of hundreds of interviews with people who knew Gerhartsreiter at various times, coincides with the . In May, .

Gerhartsreiter claimed to be royal descendent Christopher Chichester when he lived in San Marino in the 1980s. John Sohus and his wife Linda went missing during the time that Gerhartsreiter was renting their mother’s guesthouse and John’s bones were found in the backyard in the 90s, when new residents at the Lorain Road home were digging to build a pool. Linda’s whereabouts remain unknown.