As one would place the pieces into a jigsaw puzzle, Sam found himself placing each of the victims into a hypothetical case against John Stringer. Common sense dictated he should be concentrating on, and pursuing alternative avenues of inquiry, because there simply couldn’t be a case against Stringer. Stringer was dead, and dead men can"t commit murder, not unless medical science had advanced into the area of miracles, and no one had informed him.
There were no miracles at work here however, and he silently cursed his stubbornness at not being able to accept unconditionally that which he knew to be true. Paddy could not have been mistaken. If he said Stringer was dead, then Stringer was dead. Sam had known Paddy O’Reily for a long time, and if there was one thing the tough old scribe was n
