Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 5, November 1976

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When a murderer strikes from beyond the grave, it means one of three things. Either he is not dead or someone alive is using his name — or a ghost is walking. After a gruesome double killing, it is up to Shayne to find out which.

Mike Shayne pondered. It had all the earmarks of being a domestic case and he normally did not mix in family beefs. He would not have seen her at all if Jim Rourke had not pushed him into it as a favor to a friend.

The woman waited patiently. She was perched in the chair placed strategically in front of the redhead’s desk. She had class, was unpainted and still attractive in middle years. A few treadmarks were visible here and there, but most of her lines and planes remained smooth and she exuded an air of cool confidence and intelligence.

When she phoned in for an appointment at Mike Shayne’s Flagler Street office, she had said her name was Samantha. She was Samantha of Samantha’s. It meant nothing to Shayne, but his secretary had instantly perked.

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