Alone, Studs Fedora got the bottle of bourbon from his office. Alone, he went back to his rooms, where he sat and listened to the clock...

The police arrived quickly. Studs Fedora watched from the front stoop as uniformed officers escorted Cara Lotts into their squad car. Lt....

Cunningly concealed beneath his shirt, Studs Fedora wore a miniature transmitter, broadcasting everything said in the room to the police....

Studs Fedora gazed into Cara's eyes for a long moment. Then he shrugged off his jacket, and Cara's expression lit up. He loosened his...

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After the murder, Cara got close to Studs to keep him distracted. But a strange thing happened. Studs wound up distracting HER! In the...

Studs was supposed to follow Lotts and learn what properties he wanted, so Bricks could get to them first. Instead, Lotts led Studs to...

Faced with the facts, Cara admitted her affair with Bricks Bennett. She wanted Bricks, and she wanted the money, but there was Lotts in...

Maybe Cara had drinks with Bricks Bennett...maybe more. Maybe Lotts walked in on them...or maybe he was supposed to. Maybe there was an...

Maybe Bricks and Lotts had drinks together, maybe they didn't. But neither one of them wore lipstick the exact shade of Cara's, the shade...

Studs recognized the two thugs at the graveyard, and later realized they had been at the hotel. But somehow the thugs were waiting for...

The scowl on Cara's face hurt Studs Fedora more than a bullet ever could...except physically. Next Chapter #murder #mystery #snapjudgment...

The police had it all: Bricks Bennett, his hired thugs, the real estate deal gone wrong. There was only one piece missing from this...

She burst through the door and flew into his arms, but the music didn't swell and the audience didn't applaud. Studs Fedora pushed Cara...

After leaving Bricks Bennett, Studs Fedora went back to his office. He wanted a drink; in fact, he wanted many drinks. But he needed to...

Bricks Bennett fell to pieces in the face of Studs Fedora's questioning. He confessed that it had happened just the way Studs figured....

However it happened, Merton Lotts went out the window. Maybe his last view was of property he owned, or maybe it was of the squalid...

Studs Fedora speculated that Bennett and Lotts met to discuss the real estate deal over cocktails--but the conversation went sour...

Studs recalled the properties Lotts had bought up before his death. He described the plot plan in the city archives, for a huge...

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