Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

UCLA library was quiet, smelling of old paper and floor wax.

Dr. Raymond Ellis sat at a long oak table, surrounded by microfiche rolls and thick municipal reports.

He took off his reading glasses and polished them with the wide end of his tie as I sat down.

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