Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
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2. Part 2He sat down at the oak typewriter desk. The typewriter was already raised into typing position. There was a sheet of paper in it, blank except for a numeral 3 at the top; it was...
3. Part 3What good could a description like that do the cops? It could fit a hundred thousand guys. It could eliminate a few, sure--teenage kids, skinny guys or fat ones, runts or six-fo...
4. Part 4"They do. He'll almost have to, to succeed. Just what he'll try, they don't know, of course. He might slug a woman on the street and drag or carry her into an alley or an areawa...
5. Part 5So she'd gone back to promiscuity, but since Mack wasn't jealous she'd kept him as a paramour. It was about this time that she began to get the idea that, while she was going to...
6. Part 6"So he called just before you came here, said he'd got worried about his bet on Birthday Boy and wanted to change it a little. Said he gave you five besides a one tip, all on th...
7. Part 7The next time Benny Knox confessed to a crime he did not commit, again a murder, was two years later--a year ago, when Benny was thirty-four. That time he did not get off so lig...
8. Part 8Dolly sat down on the sofa beside him, not pulling the kimono closed, and snuggled up against him. "Ray, honey," she said, "there's something might make you feel even better tha...
9. Part 9He headed for Jick's, but since there were two other taverns he had to pass on the way, he made a quick stop in each of them. Business was slow in both; there were only a few cu...
10. Part 10But whether she was still mad or not he wouldn't let it develop into a quarrel again. He'd be calm and patient with her, and he'd be able to explain this time what he'd not been...
11. Part 11And in that moment as he stood there Ray knew why the chill had gone down his spine. For a moment the man's hands, _big_ hands, flexed and unflexed--and then went rigid as thoug...
12. Part 12"Five--no, six. Two at the front that look on the street, three along one side and one kitchen window at the back. But he couldn't get at any of them without using a long ladder...
13. Part 13But if he ever got into trouble like this again--well, again she'd borrow five hundred against the policy (that would still leave nine thousand coming, a nice nest egg, when the...