Chapter 10
THE REPORTERS began buzzing around McCloud like flies. Who did McCloud think had killed Dutch DeGroot? Was the square cut diamond found in DeGroot’s hand really a part of the Kahn & Company loot? Why, if Sheila Mayo and her husband were not implicated, had they vanished, apparently into thin air? Had neither of them said anything to McCloud when he was out at their house that would indicate where they might have intended going? And what was this about Margie Garland having been Duke D’Arcy’s girl friend? Why hadn’t the police picked up Duke D’Arcy himself?
“Your guess is as good as mine,” McCloud told them. Dark eyes sultry, he watched Brannigan trying to get the ink off his suit. He was really going to have to do something about Brannigan. For quite a while now the red-head h
