Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 5, April 1974

Verner shook his head. “I’m not a detective.”

The sheriff smiled. “I don’t know anyone better qualified to be one. I give you an impossible triple-locked door. And you hand me back an open-and-shut case!”

Dear Mama

by Pauline C. Smith

She understood his loneliness, away from his mother, but she shouldn’t have interrupted his lunch hour walk.

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