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Bricks in the Pockets

Rented flat in Chelsea, London, 1982, with Italian newspapers scattered about and a typewriter.

London, Friday, June 18, 1982, 2 pm. At 7:30 am, a postal worker found the banker Ettore Malvasi, 62, hanging from a rope on the scaffolding under a Thames bridge.

Suspects

• Ignazio SperandioConstruction businessman from Rome who organized the banker's escape, 51
• Zeno MarcuzziThe banker's bodyguard, a former boxer from Trieste, 37
• Glenys ThornburyEnglish interpreter hired through an agency since Tuesday, 31

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Iron Steps

Corner of a Stockholm avenue in 1986, snowy night, with a narrow iron-stepped stairway.

Stockholm, Saturday, March 1, 1986, 10:00 am. Last night at 11:21 pm, Housing Minister Viggo Lindqvist, 59, was walking home from the Aurora Cinema with his wife along the main avenue downtown, without bodyguards.

Suspects

• Ebba NordgrenNight watchwoman at the Nordvakt insurance building on the corner, 33
• Bertil KvarnströmGraphic draftsman at Nordvakt, who came forward as a witness, 52
• Leif EkdahlDoorman at the Aurora Cinema, 44

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Buttons in the Ashes

Parlor of a middle-class house in Fall River, 1892, morning, with a horsehair sofa and a pendulum clock.

Fall River, Massachusetts, Monday, August 8, 1892, 10 a.m. Last Thursday, the banker Josiah Crandall, 69, and his wife, Lucinda, 64, were killed in their own home.

Suspects

• Moira KinsaleIrish maid of the household, 26
• Jasper LyleBrother of Josiah's first wife, visiting since Wednesday, 59
• Constance CrandallJosiah's youngest daughter, Sunday school teacher, 32

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Feathers in the Wind

Hall of a mansion in the Bahamas, 1943, after the storm, an untouched coffee tray.

Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, July 8, 1943, 10 am. In a colonial mansion at Cable Beach, gold magnate Ambrose Tallis, 68, was found dead in his bed at 7 am, after a night of storms.

Suspects

• Everett PinderLand broker, the victim's partner and friend, slept in the guest room, 58
• Gilles FontanetYachtsman, the victim's son-in-law, married to Celia Tallis against her father's will, 33
• Hyacinth RolleThe mansion's housekeeper, 46

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Tripod in the Dumpster

Living room of a rented Scottsdale apartment in 1978, with a big VCR on top of the TV.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Thursday, June 29, 1978, 3:00 pm. In apartment 14B of the Palo Verde Residences, the actor Warren Keeley, 49, star of an old TV comedy series, was found dead in his bedroom at 11:30 am.

Suspects

• Lorraine TisdaleActress in the play, neighbor through the wall in 14C, who found the body, 29
• Dwight MercerVideo equipment salesman at Kensei Video, friend of the victim, 39
• Gus AmbroseSuperintendent of the Palo Verde Residences, who opens the car gate at night, 56

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