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The Oak Coffin

Salon of a villa on Lake Geneva in 1978, with a closed piano and a portrait of a conductor.

Above Vevey, Tuesday, March 14, 1978, 10 pm. In the drawing room of a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, a black telephone is wired to the police recorder, and nobody takes their eyes off it.

Suspects

• Tullio LanfranchiChauffeur and mechanic of the Haldenstein villa, 34 years old
• Fernand GilliéronVillage gravedigger, 61 years old
• Mathilde RossierSecretary to the maestro Haldenstein, 38 years old

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Service Door

Lobby of a Caracas hotel in 1963 at night, with a dark wood desk and a key board.

Caracas, Monday, August 26, 1963, 9 pm. In the lobby of the Hotel Miramonte, in San Bernardino, a ceiling fan turns over empty armchairs. Club Cibeles of Madrid is staying here, playing in the Caracas International Club Tournament.

Suspects

• Baltasar IglesiasNight concierge of the Hotel Miramonte, Spanish exile, 61
• Efraín MendibleLiaison officer of the tournament organizing committee, 29
• Consuelo IbargurenDelegation secretary of Club Cibeles, 41

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Empty Grid

Hotel lobby in Havana, 1958, with a cord-and-plug switchboard and a cage elevator.

Havana, Sunday, February 23, 1958, 11:00 pm. In the lobby of the Hotel Atlántida, two blocks from the Malecón, there are still shards of an ashtray on the marble floor and a forgotten straw hat near the elevator.

Suspects

• Arnaldo PezzottiDirector of the champion's Italian team, 54
• Maxine OberlinAmerican photographer for a motorsport magazine, 31
• Wilfredo OrdóñezReceptionist and switchboard operator at the Hotel Atlántida, 27

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Headlights On

Sitting room of an English country house in 1926, a lit fireplace and a typewriter on the desk.

Sunningdale, England, Wednesday, December 8, 1926, 9 pm. Five days ago the novelist Leonora Vesey, 36, drove out of her house on a Friday night and has not been seen since.

Suspects

• Roderick WraxallLeonora's literary agent since 1919, 51 years old
• Basil VeseyLeonora's husband, a reserve major and financier in the City, 37 years old
• Ivy TrelawneyLeonora's secretary and typist for three years, 29 years old

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Ten Thousand Feet

FBI interrogation room in Seattle, 1971, with two parachutes in bags on a chair.

Seattle, Friday, November 26, 1971, 10 pm. On Wednesday, the eve of Thanksgiving, a man in a dark suit, dark glasses and slick black hair boarded Cascade Pacific flight 412 in Portland and showed a flight attendant a bomb in his briefcase.

Suspects

• Orval OdegaardSkydiving instructor and parachute rigger, owner of the school that supplied the parachutes, 51
• Merle KostelnikHydraulics mechanic for the 727s at the airline's hangar in Seattle, 44
• Arlene SundquistFlight attendant who spent flight 412 beside the hijacker, 26

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