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THAT WAS THE PIECE of the puzzle I needed. If Jenks had premeditated these crimes, mapped them out in some early book, it would constitute unimpeachable knowledge. No longer circumstantial. With everything else we had, I could definitely bring him in. "Where can I find this book?" I asked. "It wasn't very good," Joa
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THIS WAS WHY I had become a homicide detective. I rushed back to the office, my head whirling with how to get my hands on this lost book, when the next bombshell hit. It was McBride. "Are you sitting?" he asked, as if he were about to deliver the coup de grace. "Nicholas Jenks was here in Cleveland. The night of the Hall of Fame murders. The son of a bitch was here." Jenks had lied right to my face. He hadn't even blinked. It was now clear; the unidentifiable man at the Hall of Fame had been him after all. He had no alibi. McBride explained how his men had scoured the local hotels. Finally, they uncovered that Jenks had been at the Westin, and amazingly, he had registered under his own name. A desk clerk working there that night remembered him. She knew it the minute she saw Jenks -she was a fan. My mind raced with the ramifications. This was all McBride needed. They had a prior relationship with the victim, a possible sighting at the scene. Now Jenks was placed in his town. He had even lied under questioning. "Tomorrow, I'm going to the district attorney for an indictment," McBride a
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I GOT THEM TOGETHER on an hour's notice. "Cleveland's ready to indict," I told them. Then I dropped the bombshell about the book Always a Bridesmaid. "You've got to find it," Jill declared. "It's the one link we can tie in to all three crimes. Given that it was unpublished, it's as good as exclusive knowledge of the killings. It might even parallel the actual crimes. You find that book, Lindsay, we put Jenks behind bars. Forever!" "How? Joa