Your Sylvan Glade Development stock may be worth a lot more than you think. Better get out there and prowl around the old house for a while. You might be surprised at what youll find — if youre lucky. Murder cases are never nice, Drake told him, particularly your murder cases. Im waiting for the answer, Stone said. I hired the best private investigator I could. An old friend from my army days. He proved Id been set up. That I hadnt broken into our opponents private office and crippled his security guard in the process.’ Eleven. Did you pick her out? Chapter 42 Ill talk with her, Gertie, Mason said. Remember that George Alder was left-handed that there was a triangular tear on the left sleeve of his coat, that his gun had been fired almost straight up in the air, and that he had been kdled almost at die same moment he filed his gun because he had pitched forward and Ins own gun was found underneath his body. You put all those things together and theres only one answer. Come to think of it, I believe I do, but the jewelry under that policy is ten per cent of the amount of the policy, I think. Who knows? Maybe somebodys paying him a little money. Or maybe hes just ambitious. Try this one on. Suppose Gallops came to you about September first and said, There wont be any strike if you put it in writing that you’ll make me Secretary of Labor.’ Then, since were dealing in theories, how did the murderer get possession of George Alders gun? Ill need my sling. My name is Dev Conrad. I own Dev Conrad and Associates in Chicago, a political consulting firm. Previous to that I was in the army, serving as an investigator for several years. This election cycle my firm of fourteen people was running eight campaigns. We hired freelancers as we needed them. So then you had started that trip around four-ten in the afternoon? And before that, all your equipment was installed and managed by your friend Bob Cantor. It has been some years since Stratigic Services has had anything to do with it..