Murder by Deadline

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Mel Taylor uses his experiences in life to shape his work and his characters. Growing up in Chicago, Mel was raised in a Chicago housing project.

It was all good. Good people, good friends, good start, good times and would not change it. Infuriated at the killings, a group of people attacked shops, set some of them on fire and threw stones, forcing the police to fire in the air. Another priest, Ramsharan, 56, received serious injuries, the police said.

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A resident of Bidhuna, he was shifted to Saifai hospital, they said. Around a dozen police teams headed by senior officials were formed to investigate the murders.

Special surveillance teams were sent to Auraiya from Kanpur to help the local police in cracking the case and in dealing with rumour-mongers, officials said. August 18, Already have a TCM Profile? Your social account may not have provided your email to us.

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Steve accuses Lynch of hiring Keller to commit the robbery and warns him to stay "on the other side of the street. McMullen persuades Steve to leave town to avoid trouble with Lynch. As Steve is preparing to depart, he is contacted by Helen Blanchard, an old friend, who fears that her dissipated stepson Paul has taken a valuable document belonging to his father Claude, an oil tycoon, and given it to "cheap entertainer" Laura Gibson.

After Helen also reveals that Paul has his father's gun and has been in contact with Keller, Steve goes to Laura's apartment, where he finds Paul all but passed out from drink.

Strong-armed by Steve, Laura admits that Paul gave Keller the document, but insists she knows nothing about the gun. There Steve notices his exotic neighbor from the Hotel Schuyler, Zita Louise Duvalle, exiting Gordon's office, then finds Gordon dead, with an empty envelope addressed to Claude near his body. After alerting reporter Vivian Mason, a fond aquaintance, to the body's presence, Steve returns to his hotel and shoves his way into Zita's rooms. She watches coolly as Steve searches for the document and remains nonplussed when Jerry arrives to arrest her on suspicion of murder.

While questioning the Rumanian-born Zita in his office, Jerry receives an anonymous tip about the location of the gun that killed Gordon and learns that it is registered to Claude. Jerry releases Zita, but instructs his men to observe her. With Vivian in tow, Jerry then heads for the Blanchards' Brentwood home and there questions Paul, who confesses to selling the document to Keller at Laura's, but claims no knowledge about the gun.

Sure that she has a great scoop, Vivian slips away from Jerry and sneaks into Laura's apartment, where she is attacked in the dark. Upon awakening, Vivian is greeted by Jerry and learns that Laura has been murdered. Worried that Vivian will implicate the wrong suspect in her story, Jerry assigns a hefty policewoman to guard her. Meanwhile, Steve, who had been knocked out and searched by Keller in his rooms, also shows up at Laura's and convinces Jerry to allow him to deal with Keller for the document.