For Forty Years He Trusted His Best Friend — Then He Found What Was Killing the Man’s Wife
He had been ready to fly.
Another hour, and he would have been gone — to the offshore accounts, to the new life, to wherever a man goes when he has murdered his wife for money and gotten away with it.
We had missed it by an hour, and we had only not missed it because a doctor recognized a patch and a dying woman spelled a word on a bedsheet.
Chapter 17 — What Was in the Safe