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FICTION

“The name of the man you want is Karl Carver Endicott. He Ims at Citrus Grove ” I said to our client.

Ansel moistened his lips with the tip of his tongue. “I hadn’t anticipated that you’d just get the name.”

“That’s what you wanted,” I told him. “In case you’re interested in the murder....”

“I’m not interested in the murder. I merely wanted…” Suddenly his voice trailed away into dismayed silence.

I grinned at him. “How did you know there’d been a murder, Ansel? Because in case you’re interested, you’ve made several very important mistakes. First....”

And so began one of the most complicated and fast- moving of the Bertha Cool-Donald Lam mystery stories by A. A. Fair (pseudonym of that past master of the detective story, ERLE STANLEY GARDNER).