HE GLOWERED AT ME. “What are you driving at, Schnell?”
“I’m trying to convince you that we are faced with a very clever criminal mind,” I said. “A man with a fine talent. One who plans his crimes so well that they aren’t even recognized as criminal.”
“Nonsense. You can’t conceal any crime forever.”
“Forever isn’t necessary, Chief. Just long enough to cover up completely, to remove all connection. We don’t know how many bank tellers have been running on reduced salary because they somehow paid out a hundred in cashing a ten-dollar check. We couldn’t demand an audit of all the big financial accounts in town, to know the why and wherefore of the transfer of any sum of money larger than the limit of petty larceny.”
“But now you are talking about a sly, clever operator, Schnell. This is a p
