It perplexed him. He grabbed Tommy G.’s address book. Jean Staley’s initials are in there. That Vice clerk got him her full name. He glommed her PD sheet last month and tumbled to her weed roust. He planted the address book to fuck with Dudley Smith. It’s fake evidence in a real murder case. He planted names in the address book. Lin Chung and Doc Lesnick radiate Fifth Column. The klubhaus is Fifth Column. Jean’s revealed as Red now. Old Saul was her ’33 cellmate. The cell got braced per the ’33 fire. Spiritus Mundi? Yeah, he gets that. Beyond that, there’s just this: Jean Staley. Barn-dance
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