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Swapped Day Off

Basement kitchen in Belgravia, London, 1974, with a loose light bulb on a chair.

London, Friday, November 8, 1974, 11 pm. Last night, shortly after 9 pm, the nanny Brenda Hulme, 29, was beaten to death in the dark basement kitchen of a terraced house in Belgravia. The body was stuffed into a canvas sack.

Suspects

• Kevin DraycottBarman at the pub on the corner and the nanny's boyfriend, 31
• Eileen SproatThe family's nanny for nine years, dismissed in March, 58
• Alastair WrexhamEarl of Wrexham, the countess's estranged husband, 39

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Empty Deck

Vice-admiralty court room in Gibraltar, 1872, with open logbooks on the table.

Gibraltar, Wednesday, December 18, 1872, 9 pm. At the Vice-Admiralty wharf, under guard and in the rain, an empty brigantine creaks at her moorings: the Seraphine, found adrift on the 4th between the Azores and Portugal, her sails in tatters and her boat gone.

Suspects

• Lemuel StroudCaptain and owner of the brigantine Constance, 44
• Jacinto FurtadoCook of the Constance, formerly cook of the Seraphine, an Azorean from Faial, 38
• Lydia ValadaresYounger sister of the missing captain's wife, married to a Lisbon merchant, 26

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Last Wave

Stationmaster's office in Dijon, 1890, with a ledger and a photograph of a tall man.

Dijon, Wednesday, September 17, 1890, 7 pm. In the stationmaster's office, the lamp lights a photograph: a man almost six and a half feet tall, in a gray cape, beside a wooden camera with a single lens.

Suspects

• Prosper CoudrayThe inventor's older brother, an architect in Dijon, 53
• Baptiste RouvièreThe inventor's mechanic and builder of the camera, 38
• Séverine PothierTelegraphist at Dijon station, 27

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Back Seat

Room of a roadside restaurant near Detroit in 1975, with chairs upturned on the tables.

Bloomfield Township, a Detroit suburb, Thursday, July 31, 1975, 10 pm. In the back room of the Silver Pheasant restaurant, sealed off by the police, the chairs sleep upside down on the tables. Outside, in the empty parking lot, only a green Chrysler is left.

Suspects

• Cormac KilbaneOwner of a limousine agency in Pontiac and Raskin's informal secretary, 61
• Delores RuddickNew York journalist hired to write Raskin's autobiography, 38
• Lonnie GarvinRaskin's foster son and handyman of union local 87, 41

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Gray Hat

Harbour police office in Naples, 1938, at night, a window facing the quay and a steamship.

Naples, Monday, March 28, 1938, 9 p.m. In the harbor police room, the funnel of the steamer Aretusa smokes over the wet quay, but the ship is not sailing for Palermo tonight: Rome ordered her held.

Suspects

• Nicola ScarpatiPurser of the steamer Aretusa, 46
• Ornella VitielloThe professor's assistant at the physics institute, 23
• Calogero FazzariProfessor of mathematics at the University of Palermo, cabin 7 passenger, 57

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