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A hard-boiled detective arrives at a small mining town only to find his client murdered and the inhabitants embroiled in complex webs of corruption.

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gave him the newspapers⁠—that is, made him publisher. Mr. Donald liked that. He had been interested in journalism in Paris. When he found out how terrible everything was here⁠—in civic affairs and so on⁠—he started that reform campaign. He didn’t know⁠—he had been away since he was a boy⁠—he didn’t know⁠—”

“He didn’t know his father was in it as deep as anybody else,” I helped her along.

She squirmed a little over her examination of the finger prints, didn’t contradict me, and went on:

“ Mr. Elihu and he had a quarrel. Mr. Elihu told him to stop stirring things up, but he wouldn’t stop. Maybe he would have stopped if he had known⁠—all there was to know. But I don’t suppose it would ever have occurred to him that his father was really seriously implicated. And his father wouldn’t tell him. I suppose it would be hard for a father to tell a son a thing like that. He threatened to take the papers away from Mr. Donald. I don’t know whether he intended to or not. But he was taken sick again, and everything went along as it did.”

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