Chapter 8
CELLINI SMITH awoke shortly before nine after a few uneasy hours of sleep, He lighted a cigarette and t leaned back on the pillow, staring with red-rimmed eyes at the casket in the corner. It was untenanted all right, and it was certain that Alex Bornaman was the cause of the eviction.
But why? If anything of value had remained on Meade's corpse then certainly the police or the mortician would have made the discovery before Bornaman kidnapped the body.
Cellini flicked the cigarette through the broken window and climbed out of bed. He dressed, went out to his car, and a short while later he was breakfasting over a morning newspaper.
Two items caught his interest. The first was a page one sub-headline:
Petty Crime Wave Sweeps City.
Under it was the story of a wide series of p
