Forty Thousand Dollars in Marked Bills Found in a Safe Deposit Box

The brass key to safe deposit box number 214 had a tiny, jagged scratch on its bow shaped like a miniature arrow. I noticed it as I handed the key to Clara Mercer, who had been running the branch since my children were in diapers.

Clara took the key, her thick reading glasses hanging from a beaded chain around her neck. She led me past the low security continue reading …