“Snodman, with a B.S. in liberal arts, number one in his police academy class, ex-debating team captain and regional chess champion, adjusted his black horn-rimmed glasses with his little finger and peered down at the slip of paper the commissioner had handed him: I know everything about my marks At least I know enough To catch them always unawares They're never up to snuff "Crude," Snodman said. "What does it mean, sir?" "I've seen them before," Commissioner Moriarty said. "They're the work of ...a man the underworld calls 'The Snuffer. "A professional assassin, sir?" Snodman asked, looking at Moriarty through emotionless blue eyes. It had always intrigued Snodman, the fact that a man named Moriarty would he decreed by fate to be a police commissioner and look so like the fictitious Sherlock Holmes would have looked, with lean hawk nose, shrewd gray eyes, even smoking a pipe the stem of which was at least slightly curved. "Possibly the greatest hired killer the police have ever run up against," the commissioner said.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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