![]() ![]() At least one used the word "assassination." Details were scanty, other than a Swiss magistrate's cryptic announcement that the death had been "a crime." Bold headlines in the European papers speculated it was murder. ![]() The financier Edouard Stern, one of Europe's richest men, confidant to any number of French politicians, the man who had once been heir apparent at the elite AngloFrench investment-banking firm of Lazard Frères & Co., had been found dead in Geneva, in his locked penthouse apartment. The story out of Switzerland that Tuesday in early March was startling, yet oddly familiar.
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