The Thousand-Mile Grave

The Thousand-Mile GraveTrwin clark, a slow but painstaking reader of the crime news for many years, tried to analyze the case as if he were a district attorney. Cui bono?--he was proud of being able to apply such a professional term. Who benefited when the old bastard vanished from the face of the earth? Well, the answer was mildly discouraging: Irwin did. Not very much, though, just to the extent of half interest in an old-fashioned hardware store that cleared, at best, about $8000 or $9000 a y...