“Sinners and Shrouds” by Jonathon Latimer
‘Sam Clay’s time had run out. When the cops caught him they’d arrest him for murder - unless he could name the real killer’
*Collier's*, Sept. 30, 1955
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‘Kenneth Wyman’s life insurance policy had expired at midnight Wednesday. His body was not found until the early hours of Thursday’
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‘Dr. Mookerji shook his head. “Regretfully report only retrograde progress,” he said’
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#THISWEEK in 1952
‘”Did your husband and Mr. Prentiss quarrel over the Channing girl?” Dr. Coffee asked the pretty widow’
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“Sinners and Shrouds” by Jonathan Latimer:
‘The noose was tightening around his neck. Clay had to find the real killer - before the cops discovered victim No. 2.’
*Collier's*, September 16, 1955
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