Amy Robach

Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congresswoman?

And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, before writing a hit James Bond film,

How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever?

And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids?

The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote.

Listen to The Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

From iHeart Podcasts and Best Case Studios, this is Rorschach, Murder at City Hall.

July 2003.

Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest.

Both men are carrying concealed weapons.

And in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead.

Everybody in the chambers ducked.

A shocking public murder.

A charismatic politician.

You know, he just bent the rules all the time.

I still have a weapon and I could shoot you.

And an outsider with a secret.

He alleged he was a victim of blackmail.

That may or may not have been political.

That may have been about sex.