Sublime

If you met Lewis in the street, you might guess that he was a lawyer or a kindly geography teacher. In fact, he was one of the most efficiently deadly men in the British services.

Vance, a big friendly fist of a guy

Henry Tibbett was not a man who looked like a great detective. In fact, as he would be the first to point out, he was not a great detective, but a conscientious and observant policeman, with an occasional flair for intuitive detection which he called “my nose”. There were very few of his superiors who were not prepared to listen, and to take approp

“McAnnis, is it? Adam McAnnis?” As if committing the name to memory, to be written down later, inside a matchbook, or on the back of an OTB ticket, and slipped into the gloved palm of a man who will take care of it…

Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.

William (Willi) F. Unsoeld, Ph.D.: 36, Corvallis, Oregon; Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Oregon State University, on leave as deputy Peace Corps representative in Nepal; Climbing leader.

“It’s not my first body,” said James Blake. Adding, in response to McAnnis’s arched eyebrows: “I was the one who found Trip Caldwell and Otto Mayer in the car.”