The one man...Larry Cutter was going to take no chances at all when he moved in to take over Iroquois, Ted Saxon thought. He wasn't willing to settle for a police chief who could be hoodwinked into cooperating with a puppet mayor. He wanted a man in office over whom he had absolute control. Chief Saxon had been murdered, his son framed, and now Arts Marks was being lured out of a job that could be his permanently by the offer of a better one. Why? And who could be the only man over whom Cutter could possibly have perfect control. There could be only one answer. The man who had murdered Andy Saxon!

This was cold-blooded murder!

"Car One to Control. Can you read me, Control?"
Lifting the microphone from its bracket on the radio panel, Ted Saxon said, "Control to Car One. I read you fine. What's up?"
"We're on Route 60, five miles out of Rigby. The Chief and Lieutenant Burns have both been shot by a suspicious character we stopped. I'm rushing them to Rigby Memorial. Description of suspect's car: new Chevrolet two-door sedan, grey with blue top, New York license 1UL-053. Too dark for description of suspect; he started firing before the Chief and Burns got close to him, then took off. Last seen thirty seconds ago headed south on Route 60. Over to you." It might have been a routine call, coming over any police hook-up, but it wasn't.
The Chief, you see, was Ted Saxon's father.

Ghost-written by Richard Deming.

The Copper Frame Translations: Dutch/Flemish: Gangsters in Iroquois Estonian: Puünis German: Die letzte Rechnung schickt der Tod (aka Geheimnummer 7-3204) Italian: Mirate al cuore Spanish: El Misterio Del Policia