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MediaDB / «The Mystery of a Half-Forgotten Murder" by Erle Stanley Gardner: download fb2, read online
About the book: 1935 / Journalist Charlie Morden, working closely with the police, unearthed a real sensation. A man and a young woman have just been arrested on suspicion of robbery; the man introduced himself as John Smith and stated that he was innocent of anything, and that he was seeing the woman for the first time - he was simply dropping her off in his car. But then he changed his testimony: he said that his name was Frank Cattay, and even presented the relevant documents. The police took advantage of the fact that Cattay himself was a bank director, the president of a country club, a big shot... The detainee was released, and Morden had already begun to prepare a report, when suddenly... the real Frank Cattay showed up at the police! So who was this “John Smith”? Charlie realized that he would hurt himself, but he would sniff out the truth...