Payoff for the Banker
“TO 9:05 P.M.
Lieutenant Weigand made a little dot with his pencil after each of the names on the sheet of paper before him. He looked at the names and the little dots and then he looked across the desk which had been George Merle’s and shook his head at Captain Theodore Sullivan of the Criminal Identification Division of the State Police.
“So,” Sullivan said. “It isn’t very helpful, Lieutenant.”
It wasn’t, Weigand agreed, helpful at all. It left them where they had started. No one admitted havi...ng been near the beach cottage at around ten minutes to six, which was, as nearly as they could reconstruct it, the time Pam North was slugged. Everyone was sure that he was somewhere else—and no one could prove that he was somewhere else. Mary Hunter and Joshua Merle had been talking then—or about then. They had not particularly noticed the time. But about that time—they thought without conviction that it was a little later—they had parted and Merle had gone in search of Weldon Jameson.MoreLess
Lieutenant Weigand made a little dot with his pencil after each of the names on the sheet of paper before him. He looked at the names and the little dots and then he looked across the desk which had been George Merle’s and shook his head at Captain Theodore Sullivan of the Criminal Identification Division of the State Police.
“So,” Sullivan said. “It isn’t very helpful, Lieutenant.”
It wasn’t, Weigand agreed, helpful at all. It left them where they had started. No one admitted havi...ng been near the beach cottage at around ten minutes to six, which was, as nearly as they could reconstruct it, the time Pam North was slugged. Everyone was sure that he was somewhere else—and no one could prove that he was somewhere else. Mary Hunter and Joshua Merle had been talking then—or about then. They had not particularly noticed the time. But about that time—they thought without conviction that it was a little later—they had parted and Merle had gone in search of Weldon Jameson.MoreLess
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