MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Six

                       Closing in on the Kidnappers at Last   Cross rushes to the Johnson home; our favorite lawyer, Larry Steifel is there, drunk and making moves on the new widow.  Steifel makes himself annoying to everyone in the house except Abel Johnson, who...

MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Five

                             Running Down the Clues   Using the card from the detective agency as well as a label from the dead man’s clothes, Cross moves the investigation along. Although he has no investigative training, he could give Archer a run for his...

MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Four

                                 An Encounter with Tiresias     Following the instructions in the ransom note, Cross goes to the drop off point at the train station next to the newsstand. A lesser writer would have obtained a lead from the newsstand operator...

MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Three

                                     Late to the Party   Chapter Two opens with the appearance at the courthouse of Amy Miner, Fred’s wife. She is highly upset but Cross manages to get out of her that a ransom demand of fifty thousand dollars has been made,...

MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Two

                                       A STRONG BEGINNING        The Opening Line is, “I met the boy on the morning of the kidnapping.”     Nobody can stop reading at that point The narrator, Howard Cross, a probation officer, arrives at work...