A Horse's Head

August, 1967

A Horse's HeadConcluding a new novelSynopsis: It was a rare spring day. Mullaney--one year out of marriage and long out of touch with Lady Luck--had a hot tip on the fourth at Aqueduct and was killing himself trying to borrow $50 when the black Cadillac limousine pulled up and a distinguished-looking gentleman named Gouda invited him inside at gunpoint. "Take me out to Aqueduct," Mullaney said jokingly; but they took him to a stonecutter s establishment next to a cemetery and told him...