| In the daily life of a New York cabdriver almost anything is possible, but what hap- pened to David Marks was a horror story that could only have been devised by a mas- ter villain, one who combined brilliance with desperation. David Marks, twenty-eight, the bereavedfather of two young boys, taught English by day in a junior high school. At night hemoonlighted by driving a cab through thestreets of New York City, still filled withgrief over the death a few months earlier ofhis young wife. The story began with an act of chivalry, orso he regarded it. On a moonlight night inspring he is hailed by a beautiful girl whoasks him to take her to Stamford, Connecti-cut. If he would get her there by eight o clockand keep the trip a secret, she would pay himeighty dollars. Intrigued, David consentsand carefully omits the entry from his triplog. He went that night, again a few nightslater, and finally a fateful third time. The destination was a large white Co-lonial house set back from the road in anexclusive small settlement near Stamford.The house was always dark and its groundsdeserted. Each time he was asked to park outon the road and stay with the cab while the girl disappeared inside for exactly one hour.She volunteered nothing about the nature ofher mission, and when he asked, she was eva-sive and begged him again each time to keepthe trip a secret. When he drove her back tothe city, she would make him drop her atsome street corner and disappear just as mys-teriously as she had originally appeared. On the third trip to Stamford, she did not come out after the specified hour had passed, and David felt impelled to look for her. He went into the silent house, and began to search. He did not find the girl, instead he discovered a dead man, murdered, shot through the head. Most horrible of all, he recognized the corpse and realized that he himself would be the major suspect. He has a motive to murder the man who had been the hit-and-run killer of his wife. David has been framed, and now he must find the killer. Could it have been the girl--the beau- tiful, mysterious girl? Now he knows he must find her. |
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