The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-20
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.s..s Jsff, tell me. why did clint kin

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He didn't like herr
jeff, | pleaded.
hen ! took on this case l;ttIs
oi y 7, realize that it would Be or,s
OF the most difficult the raass f an
sastlc' but yet the simplest the
.noss presaic OF my entire ca
Look ] don't blame YOU far
ridlng high, but girl can stand IA
only so much in one davn '''s'
Forgive me, I'm So siflv vvbs,
I'm sober. He finished his drink
with a complete lack of resnerf
loE tne tine old brandy. He or
Qereu another. Last night with
your own eyes you saw how I fig
ured out that Carols life wss
never attempted"
yes"
bowers arranged for that shot
% be fired through the window In
keep me and Peterson on the
wrong track. He hired gun
Hired 4 SanrAanr' / interrunt-
ed, How does one 20 about hir-
ing gunniang"
There are ways and WAYS. Yo,,
can advertise in the newspaner
Or you can happen to know an
& pgotlegger who has a brother
VINO 5 out of work because of Mr.
DeWey: You can get gangster
@ knock off a friend for a grand
That's union rates. You can get i
Gauguin knocked off a wall for
chicken feed, especially when
your employee is a great lover Of
Van Gogh
But, JEFF, that bullet mighty
mt one of usl Or Bowers himseIfss
70 Sure It might have But Bow
iers WASH ( feeling Sentimental
about US or himself. And then re-
member 1t was after dark. your
room was brightly lighted and
from the Esquador YOU could sea
INTO It quite clearly. The shot was
nred when there was no one with
IN range OF that window. Bowers
took care of that himself. If You
remember. He called Carol awav
from IRON ] i by proposing another
And did you know last night
that all this was Bowers work.
That ne was the murderer
BisckmaiI
CURE. The minute / realized
~ that Eve was the victim and
not Carol, knew who the MUIR
derer was. There had been so
many strange Inducements IN
Bowers relationship with her
Undercurfents that + felt even
while looking for Carols muir
derer."
For instance?"
Remember when we were IN
IN Bowers apartment and saw an
those beautifully bound copies Of
the plays he had produced before
ne started starring Ever"
They were practically all elias
sizes, or were after he did them"
Yeah, and all of a sudden he
starts producing driyel for Eve.
he made money before, and he
lost money with her. And he Is
generally conceded to be, even bv
Parker, one of the shrewdest
businessmen on Broadway Park
er also gave him credit for being
a great Judge of talent, yet he
kept doing plays for Eve when
everyone knew that she was
through, washed up. passe. Why
would he do that, let her drag
him down from being one of the
most artisticaIly and financially
successful shoWmen in New York
to just notch above a tasteIess
shoestringer like Vincent Parker7
Why. Haila?s
Because he loved herr"
"A m ella convinced me that
there were no men in Ewes hfes
no men at all, let alone Bowers.
No, ne didn't love her. And she
didn't love him.
The answer is that he pro-
duced plays for her because she
made him do il. That much was
obvious. But how did she make
hiln2 That's what / didn't know
last night The only thing Il took
me the rest of tn night TO work
up even theory and all morning
TO do enough research to substan
tiate il.
Research"
JEFF grinned. Sure, I'm scien-
tic. Well. / knew there was
blackrnail going on in these parts.