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Stuart Fleming, former member of the Dyckman University football squad, is laid up with a broken leg at home when he puts in a call to the Manhattan police. He gives them a story of gamblers trying to get at the current Dyckman players for point-shaving purposes. Lieutenant Nathan Shapiro drives out to the house to question him, only to discover that someone handy with a gun has been there first. The ex-football star is deader than a punctured pigskin. That's when Captain Heimrich gets into the game and finds that football isn't the only sport involved. There's golf, for instance, and…
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3 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 2018MysteriousPress.com · 189 pages · 9781504050586
- Other · English · 1990Thorndike Press · 293 pages · 9781560540267
- Other · French · 1977Le meurtrier n'attend pas - (Murder can't wait)Librairie Des Champs-Elysées · 9782702402009
FictionM. L. Heimrich (Fictitious character)Nathan Shapiro (fictitious character)PoliceM.L. Heimrich (Fictitious character)Large type booksNew york (state), fiction