Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

“Yes,” Raymond said, replacing his glasses. “But the recipient line is completely blank.”

I looked at the empty box on the copy. “He said his staff would find the original sheet.”

“An omission like that does not happen by accident in a public ledger,” Raymond said.

At half past four, the shadows had stretched across my desk on Wilshire Boulevard. A courier continue reading …