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She smiled slyly and said, 'Oh, so you knew all the time. Making the police turn it over gave it more legitimacy in the eyes of the jury.   And that would be justice, he thought. Now I have seen most of the world’s great cities, but New Orleans will always be special—for coffee and beignets at the M

She had on the gray T-shirt dress she liked to wear around the house after work. Moore would want to say something. She had thick dark blond hair and wore eyeglasses and no makeup, but she conveyed a sense of strength and self-possession I had rarely seen in anyone, man or woman. Often they had no checkbooks and had brought only enough cash to pay the previous cost of the tags, so they had to drive all the way back home, get more cash out of the family stash, and come back.