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

the county clerk’s office did not swing easily, catching on the worn brass threshold where fifty years of Shelbyville citizens had left their boot marks.

By nine past nine, the petition was already stamped and sitting on the laminate counter in a blue legal jacket.

Brenda, the deputy clerk who had graduated three years behind me at Shelby County High,continue reading …