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A balance of a little more than four hundred dollars remained to his credit. The cancelled checks on hand were all to the order of various life-insurance companies; and for amounts that, if they represented premiums, testified to rather large policies. I jotted down the names of the life-insurance companies, and then went to the offices of W. W. Jeffers & Sons. Thornburgh had come in, I was told, on the tenth of May with $15,000 worth of bonds that he had wanted sold. During one of his conversations with Jeffers he had asked the broker to recommend a bank, and Jeffers had given him a letter of introduction to the Seamen's Bank.
Reprinted by permission of the author. "Fatal Accident," by John D. MacDonald. ; © renewed 1975 by John D. MacDonald Publishing, Inc. First published in The Shadow Mystery Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author. "See No Evil," by William Campbell Gault. Copyright © 1950 by Popular Publications, Inc. " Reprinted by permission of the author. "Crime of Omission," by John D. MacDonald. ; © renewed 1978 by John D. MacDonald Publishing, Inc. First published in Detective Tales. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Go on, you tell him about the holes in his little case. " Tarr glared from one of us to the other. " he ordered. "Our dope is," I told him, figuring that McClump's view of it was the same as mine, "that there's nothing to show that even Thornburgh knew he was going to buy that house before the tenth of June, and that the Coonses were in town looking for work on the second. And besides, it was only by luck that they got the jobs. " "Yes? You'll also take a chance on them figuring out that Thorn-burgh, who seems to have been a nut, might have touched off the place himself!