“They arranged with Harry Manfred to do his torch job on Sunday night. The wife was safely away in the country with a woman who could swear she was there all the time. They even had a near accident—which I suspect was arranged by the friend—so it might look as if her husband had tried to kill her. Everything went off as planned.
“Then an insurance investigator showed up. They realized that he might stumble onto something that would make him suspicious of Cantwell, and that if he did, then he, too, might end up on Skid Row looking for that double. So the friend let his beard grow and once again started playing his role down there. Sure enough, I did show up and he was just helpful enough to let me find out that Cantwell had picked up a bum and had his teeth fixed to match Cantwell’s. But h
