“I remember when I wrote this story. It was a real mystery in nineteen fifty-one, and the fact that there was heroin in the car was a huge deal back then. Nowadays, with all the stuff going on in San Francisco and New York, the drug angle isn’t so exciting. It’s always bothered me that all the leads in this story were dead ends.”
“What can you tell me about the man?” Jenny asked.
“Not much more than what’s here,” Bob said. “They did an autopsy, and the cause of death was drowning. The only possible identifier they found on him was a large tattoo.”
“A tattoo? That wasn’t in the story,” Jenny said.
“I made a sketch of it at the coroner’s office when they let me view the body, but the police chief made me leave it out of the article. Seems that it was a popular tattoo with the servicemen
