"Night Passage," by Peter W.J. Hayes, in Celluloid Crimes, edited by Deborah Well, Level Short, 2025
I have a story in this book. This is the fourth story by Hayes to appear on this blog.
Doran Black is an insurance investigator in San Francisco. When a warehouse is burned down the usual reasons for such arson don't seem to fit. Black suspects it was a proof of method test, and the next one will be much worse. The obvious suspects are the family that own the warehouses. But which member of the family?
Complicating the matter in an interesting way is that Black is a veteran of World War II and he suffers some remaining trauma which may interfere with his judgment. A nicely suspenseful tale.
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