The Corpse Came Calling
“Keep your mouth shut while I think my way out.”
She bit her lip and subsided into silence. Shayne sat without moving for a long time, then sighed and took Murphy’s second telegram from his pocket. He smoothed it out and read it again, seeking some new significance in the light of the story he had just heard from Pearson.
Pearson hadn’t mentioned that Jim Lacy was the victim in the holdup that had sent Mace Morgan to prison. Perhaps he didn’t know—or thought it an unimportant detail.
But it seemed terrifically important to Shayne. If Lacy and Morgan had worked together stealing a government secret only a couple of days before the robbery—why had Morgan turned on his partner immediately afterward?
To Shayne, a more plausible explanation was that Morgan had not turned on Lacy—that the holdup had been another partnership deal between the two men. It wasn’t a new wrinkle in the annals of crime.
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