‘You sent Pete a note too, didn’t you?’ I said. ‘When I first showed at the motel you thought that Pete had told me you were in Spanish Beach.’ Jo-Jo nodded. ‘Yeh, I sent him a note. Him and Anna.’ ‘But you didn’t mention cars or your job,’ I said, ‘and you probably didn’t mail it right in Spanis...
Detectives use all the modern tools of science, yes they do. I used a basic tool in a drugstore on Bank Street—the telephone book. It’s simple when you know what to look for. No Emory Foster was listed, not in five boroughs. No one has ever invented a free-lance writer without a telephone, or a p...