by Neil Albert | May 26, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue
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...
by Neil Albert | May 21, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue
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...
by Neil Albert | May 16, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue
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,...
by Neil Albert | May 11, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue
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...
by Neil Albert | May 6, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue
A SERIOUSLY UNDERAPPRECIATED BOOK Where’s Lew? “Negative space, in art, is the empty space around and...
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