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About the Author: Robert S. Levinson is the author of thirteen published crime thrillers. Currently, THE STARDOM AFFAIR continues the adventures and misadventures of L.A. newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and ex-wife-actress Stevie Marriner, the “sex queen of the soaps.” His short stories appear regularly in the Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines and have run in various mystery anthologies and “year’s best” collections. He’s a Shamus Award nominee and a Derringer Award winner.
The phone call was thirty years late in coming, not that Cliff Stover ever expected to hear the name William T. Walsh again after he retired from the force, but his old partner, Hal Knapp, was laying it on him now.
“You hear what I’m telling you, Smokey? William T. Walsh,” he said.
“I thought LAPD closed the book on his disappearance, retired it alongside others on the cold case shelves.”
“He was lost, Walsh was, and now he’s found and the case is back on the front burner.”
“How’d it happen?”
“How do you suppose? Superior detective work.”
“An accident, you mean.”
“You’re as sharp as ever, my man.”
“Spare me the insincerity and cut straight to the punchline, please.”
“Jordan found him.”
“The basketball player?”
“The dog,” Knapp said.
Stover took the 134 East aiming for the Pasadena address that accompanied Knapp’s invitation to join him for a firsthand look at the crime scene. Traffic was light on the scenery-starved freeway, nothing to distract him from pulling the case out of his memory bank for the year 1954 as he sped past the image of an eagle time and nature had carved out of a hillside.
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