Death strikes down a man on the eve of his wedding to a lovely girl. The verdict is suicide, but the girl is certain it is murder-certain because of a closing door. Inspector McKee wonders, too, and soon both he and the girl have their hands full trying to catch up with an ingenious murderer who leaves a corpse-dotted trail.
A rampaging wife of a Manhattan socialite plunges with her car into the East River -- and it is only weeks afterward that a sleugh decides to do something about a recurring corpse... A Detective McKee mystery, from the author of Dead Man Control and McKee of Centre Street.
A red STICKINESS, partly coagulated, on the hand of a child of five…A BROWN STAIN carried to a hall carpet from a pool of blood under a dead woman in a park…A three-cornered FRAGMENT torn from a photograph…A GOLF BAG carried up fire escapes and over roofs in December…A MORPHINE COCKTAIL which shows murder can be anybody's game…A pair of practically new OXFORDS reposing in the brook…A CHEST containing a handful of yellow CLOTH and pink STONES which Charlotte took from the bank the day before she died…A DIRTY PINK BEAD for which Susan searched her house inch by inch…An open CISTERN in a third-floor tank room beside which lies one white SLIPPER…A TINY SHRED of GREEN STUFF, invisible to the naked eye....
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