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Joseph Cairo. The Black Squares Club
Chapter 1. Sicko With A Message. New York City: Police Headquarters, lower Manhattan, Thursday morning, May 11
Chapter 2. The Good Ship Constitution
Chapter 3. The Yin and the Yang
Chapter 4. The Stupidity of Man. Saturday, May 12, late afternoon
Chapter 5. The Three Witches
Chapter 6. The Siren Metes. Sunday: Monte Carlo, nearly 11:00 A.M
Chapter 7. 17 Rue Madeline
Chapter 8. Sing To Me of the Man . . Sunday morning, 2:45 A.M. Monte Carlo
Chapter 9. A Snake in Our Garden. Early Sunday morning, Washington, D.C.: The J. Edgar Hoover Building on E street between Ninth and Tenth
Chapter 10. Don’t Take A Vacation. New York City: Monday morning, 8:45 A.M
Chapter 11. Mr. Dimple
Chapter 12. The Psychological Force
Chapter 13. Get Your Ass To Mars. New York City, 8:00 P.M., Wednesday. Law offices of Ravi Freeman et.al
Chapter 14. Pervert to Medusa
Chapter 15. Judasgoat Loves the Track
Chapter 16. Take a Dramamine. Friday morning. New York City
Chapter 17. Groggy But Unrepentant. Saturday evening, somewhere over Missouri
Chapter 18. All Men Are Fools. Monday morning. Qu Min’s Malibu beach house
Chapter 19. So Much For the Good Life. Wednesday morning, 117 Shore Road, Malibu, California
Chapter 20. Given the Choice
Chapter 21. The Presupposed Conjecture. Sunday, May 27, Astoria Queens, nearly two weeks later
Epilogue
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Chief Homicide Detective Patrick Morgan was feeling the heat. He had come up through the ranks, decorated on three occasions for acts of heroism. He earned his stripes the hard way. A straight-up cop. But he knew his limitations; when something complicated came along he wasn’t ashamed to call in the experts. The press ate it up, and so did the brass. It gave the inveterate detective the breathing room he needed until there was a break in the case. The so-called experts rarely contributed much. But perception counted far more than reality. He would just sit back and wait for some hard evidence to come down the pike.
The crossword puzzle murders were no different. A sicko with a message was how the police psychologists had it figured. Problem was, no one could decipher the message. Seven murders committed in the last three years. The victims all high-profile types. Each murder preceded by a crossword puzzle mailed to the New York Herald Gazette, making veiled biographical references to the victims and focusing on a controversial theme. But no definite pattern that the authorities could discern. The crosswords were difficult but not unsolvable. Yet not once were the police, the FBI, or anyone else able to link the murder victim to the clues embedded in the puzzles. Only after the fact did the hidden messages become clear. In retrospect, it was possible to deduce the name of the victim as well as the time and place of the murder. Morgan’s problem was making the association in time to stop the murder and catch the killer.
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“The second victim was Gary Wicks, the publisher of Trim Magazine,” Morgan continued.
“I don’t see how this case relates to any environmental cause,” Ward pointed out.
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