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The Dead Can Tell. Chapter One. THE GIRL IN GRAY
Chapter Two. THE ERMINE CAPE
Chapter Three. NO LONGER THERE
Chapter Four. THROUGH THE RAILING
Chapter Five. FILE ON SARA HAZARD
Chapter Six. POST MORTEM
Chapter Seven. A DISHONEST MAID
Chapter Eight. THE RECORDING
Chapter Nine. FOR ALL TO HEAR
Chapter Ten. THE WAREHOUSE
Chapter Eleven. JOURNEY AT NIGHT
Chapter Twelve. THE VOICE
Chapter Thirteen. A SCRIBBLED NAME
Chapter Fourteen. THE CORPUS DELICTI
Chapter Fifteen. BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
Chapter Sixteen. A SPLASH IN THE DARK
Chapter Seventeen. THE THING OF GOLD
Chapter Eighteen. A RUN FOR IT
Chapter Nineteen. THE SPADE
Chapter Twenty. WITH CLOSED EYES
Chapter Twenty-One. A QUESTION OF IDENTIFICATION
Chapter Twenty-Two. A CLOUD OF BLACKNESS
Chapter Twenty-Three. TWO HEADS
Chapter Twenty-Four. HORRIBLE ADMISSIONS
Chapter Twenty-Five. A FINAL TOAST
ALL THAT Christopher McKee, the head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad, had when he started on that investigation were a remembered glimpse of two people in a café and an anonymous letter. He wasn’t even in New York when the crime was committed. He was on his way to Rio de Janeiro where he had been sent by the Mayor at the special request of the Brazilian authorities.
Fernandez, New York’s Chief Medical Examiner, slim, dark and elegant in sand color, and the Inspector, lean and towering in loose gray flannel, were having a cocktail in the El Capitan on East Sixty-third Street when Fernandez said with a grin, “Don’t look now, McKee, but there’s one of the prettiest girls I’ve ever seen right behind you. I know how interested you are in pretty girls.”
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This time Cristie did see. Her defenses began to crumble. If Sara didn’t love Steven, if she was willing to divorce him, wanted a divorce herself . . .
Steven leaned across the table. He was closer to her. His words came faster. “Don’t worry about Sara. Sara will agree. I know she will, like a shot, when I make my offer. She wouldn’t dream of leaving New York and her tight little world. She doesn’t care a snap of her fingers for me, doesn’t want anything from me except cold cash. It may be a little hard for us for a while, darling. Sara will demand everything. It will mean a commitment for big alimony. But it will be worth it. Think of it, Cristie. We can wipe out that miserable blunder we made three years ago. We can start over again.”
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