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This didn’t either surprise Hazard or convince him of Reynerd’s innocence. Sole heirs usually had airtight alibis.According to the medical examiner, Mina had been bludgeoned to death between 9:00 and 11:00 P.Mhad been shot in the head. Apparently the murder had been incidental to robbery; Cook had been loaded with merchandise and cash.Reynerd’s buddy, Jerry Nemo, had hour before the murder. Nemo was a customer, a cokehead. He set up a meet with Cook to score some blow.Nemo was no longer under suspicion. No one in Los Angeles or anywhere on Planet Earth was still under suspicion. The Cook murder qualified as classic shitcan, a case unlikely ever to be solved.. She’d been struck with such brutal [138] force that patterns of the bronze ormolu had been deeply imprinted on her flesh, even crushed into the bone of her forehead.Rolf had been partying with his current girlfriend and four other couples from seven o’clock that evening until two o’clock in the morning. They had been a flashy, noisy, memorable group at the two trendy nightclubs between which they had divided their time.Anyway, even though Mina’s murder remained unsolved, and even if Rolf’s alibi had been only that he’d , playing with himself, Hazard would have had no excuse to give the man a once-over. The case belonged to another detective.By happy chance, one of Reynerd’s party pals that night—Jerry Nemo—was known to Hazard from another case, which opened a door.Two months ago, a drug dealer named Carter Cook
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