CHAPTER’S BITTER END
John Chapter was charming enough to make them love him—and cruel enough to make someone kill him. Now the wrong man faces life in prison—or the electric chair. A reporter is the only one still asking who really held the knife.
When brilliant and seductive novelist John Chapter is found stabbed through the heart, he’s clutching the torn remnant of a mysterious letter from a woman seven years gone.
But the man in the cell is a broken rival who threatened him in a drunken rage.He had more than enough motive but he’s so hung over he can’t even remember whether he committed murder.
Chapter made careers and unmade them for sport. Who wrote the letter? How did it end up in the dead man’s hand? And what secret was in the part someone tore away?
(Originally published as a short story, Chapter’s Bitter End has been substantially expanded for this edition, with new scenes, additional clues and a fuller resolution.)
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