CHAPTER 17Jimmy O’Hearn was still snuffling when the police unbound him and led him off to be booked. Inspector Harries went back into the yard with Yamamura and Guido. “All right, Trig,” he said, “now tell me just what did happen.”
“Dr. Kintyre, Mr. Lombardi’s sister, and I went to see Mr. Lombardi at the night club where he works,” answered Yamamura. “He was pretty worried. O’Hearn and another chap named Larkin had hired him to do a certain out-of-town job over the very weekend his brother was killed. He wondered if it was a coincidence.”
“O’Hearn babbled something about a package of dope,” said Inspector Harries grimly. Guido became busy lighting a cigarette.
“Sure,” said Yamamura. “Why not try to drag down the witnesses against him? Where is this package?”
“Suppose you tell me your
