The Hollow Bat
The letter was postmarked Vancouver, British Columbia, the fourth of March 1974, and it was addressed to Mrs. Rose Gallagher, my grandmother. I knew the name on the envelope as …
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The Yellow Envelope
I heard the whole thing on the radio, because Deputy Navarro had left his microphone open as he walked Mrs. Hadley to the ambulance. I sat at my console in …
The Yellow Envelope Read MoreThe Walnut Chair
Carolyn Dunmore got out of her old Buick and stood in the gravel with a leather portfolio under her arm, a tall, straight woman of seventy four in a navy …
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The car pulled into the lot of Novak Precision Machining at ten minutes past noon, a dark green sedan with Indiana plates, and Chris went pale as a sheet. I …
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Richard Haynes took off his sunglasses and set them on the hood of his white pickup, and for the first time all morning the developer looked uncomfortable. He was a …
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Two cars came up the gravel road of the batch plant at the same moment, one behind the other, raising a pale and drifting dust. The first was a black …
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The pickup truck rolled to a stop at the edge of the log yard, with a cloud of dust that drifted slowly over the stacks of timber. A woman climbed …
The Coffee Pot Read MoreThe Forged Signature
The doorbell rang a third time while the attorney was still speaking, and Adaeze Okafor set down her pen. I had been sitting at the long table in the back …
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The doorbell rang a second time before I reached the front hall. Vern Olsen had stopped halfway across the living room, in his work boots, with a box of file …
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Officer Reyes turned the note over under the fluorescent light of the bus station, and I read the pencil on the back, over the shoulder of Walter Pruitt, who sat …
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