Lockman's

"Hey, Detective McKnight, look at this," said one of the plainclothes detectives who was peering into Lockman's open chest with a flashlight.

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"If my cutting out Lockman's heart was a special message to you?"

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Lockman's head had dropped forward onto his chest, but Richard thought he caught a glimpse of something white under the line of the dead man's jaw.

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Lockman's record was littered with mistakes, as Ingram expected.

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He spotted a clotted laceration leading from Lockman's left temple to behind his ear.

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The carnage that he'd seen at Lockman's house kept seeping into his head.

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A half hour later he'd contacted Lockman's secretary.

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Tonight he felt especially jumpy, due to the aftershock of discovering Lockman's body.

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Without proof to the contrary, he was back to admitting Lockman's killer could have been anyone with training, just as he'd initially told Mc Knight.

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But before he could even slow his stride, the image of Lockman's corpse popped back to mind.

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