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- case #3 - death of a front
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- sgt. haskill was alone in the station
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- house at 9:15 a.m. on a bright and warm
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- tuesday, may 21st. chief sabellico was
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- at 1 planters lane (z) with most of the
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- force. yesterday, an anonymous caller
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- tipped them off to a corpse lying behind
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- 1 planters lane, a building undergoing
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- renovation.
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- the victim, identified as charlie
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- "the torch" delacourt, was suspected of
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- working for "crazy"ácassieáfranco,
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- huxley's alleged underworld kingpin.
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- charlie "the torch" had been arrested
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- three times on arson charges, but had
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- never been convicted. "crazy"ácassieáwas
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- suspected of taking arson "contracts"
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- from desperate businessmen and charlie
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- would fulfill them by burning down their
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- places of business.
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- *
- now, charlie was dead in a gangland-
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- style execution. his hands had been tied
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- behind his back, he had been branded on
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- the chest and shot once through the left
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- eye. his body had been left behind
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- 1 planters lane. charlie may have been
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- linked to a fire of suspicious origin
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- there two days earlier. the house had
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- a recently-installed fire control system
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- that kept the fire contained until the
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- fire department arrived. as a result,
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- the house sustained very little damage.
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- *
- sgt. haskill was looking through his
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- burpee catalogue. having planted his
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- garden the past weekend, he wanted to be
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- sure he hadn't forgotten anything. then
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- the phone rang. a muffled voice said,
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- "you'll find julian bookbinder dead on
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- his boat, 'blind lady,' over at the
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- marina (aa)." then the line went dead.
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- sgt. haskill immediately called the
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- chief at 1 planters lane.
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- *
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- to win, you must:
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- 1. discover who was responsible for
- the death of julian bookbinder.
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- 2. explain two facets of the motive
- behind the murder.
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- all players start at 1 planters lane
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- (z) at 9:25 a.m.
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