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

offered a brief, professional nod. “Mrs. Vance. Clara tells me you have some currency that requires unusual verification before deposit.”

I sat down and placed the leather pouch on the table, followed by my yellow legal pad and the photocopy of the ledger pages. “These bills are forty years old, Mr. Gentry, mind you. They were kept continue reading …