Book 2: We Know Who She is
But We Don't Know Who Killed Her
5: Mr. Nickerson Swift Lies
About His Daughter
BEHIND CLOSED doors in the Commissioner's office, Colt, Dougherty and I listened to a plain tale from Inspector Flynn.
"We got the hot tip just after you left the office, Mr. Commissioner. Sherman and Parker, working together on the retail outlets for Blasky dresses, got to the Milady Dress Shop, at the address I gave you. It was Sunday, but they got the home address of the proprietors. The Milady store had sold six of the dresses of the kind found in the box—price $29.95, though why it wouldn't be thirty dollars nobody knows. They opened up the shop and went over the sales slips and all of the addresses were around the upper west side. It didn't take long to check. Sherman and
