title: Lovers' Lane: The Hall-Mills Mystery (Treasury of XXth Century Murder)
author:  Rick Geary 
description: Continuing his series recounting historical murder cases, Geary unearths an intriguing scandal that gripped the publics attention in 1922, when a respected minister and a married woman from the churchs choir were found shot to death in a park in New Brunswick, New Jersey, love letters scattered between the bodies. The pairs relationship had been an open secret among the community, with the victims spouses choosing to ignore the affair. Authorities followed various leads, from the cuckolded spouses to the Ku Klux Klan, whose various targets included illicit lovers. Ultimately, no one was tried for the crime until newspapers dredged up the murder four years later, leading to the arrest of the ministers widow, who continued to deny in the sensational trial that her husband was involved in an affair. While the case is far less renowned than Gearys previous subject, the controversial trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Gearys painstaking research and meticulous visual recreation of period details in his distinctive, mock-antiquated drawing style make this unsolved murder every bit as riveting. --Gordon Flagg
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  Death Takes The Wheel
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER I. ALIAS MR. DEATH  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER II. THE SHARER OF THE SECRET  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER III. THE TRUCK OF DOOM  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. THE SCENT GROWS HOT  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER V. OUT OF THE ETHER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. THE BLUE SEDAN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Death Takes The Wheel, a Complete Novelet
  
  
  ### G. Wayman Jones
  
  
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  [CHAPTER I. ALIAS MR. DEATH
  
  
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  [CHAPTER II. THE SHARER OF THE SECRET
  
  
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  [CHAPTER III. THE TRUCK OF DOOM
  
  
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  [CHAPTER IV. THE SCENT GROWS HOT
  
  
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  [CHAPTER V. OUT OF THE ETHER
  
  
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  [CHAPTER VI. THE BLUE SEDAN
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### CHAPTER I. ALIAS MR. DEATH
  
  
  THE delicate, filigreed hands on the clock pointed to exactly three minutes to
  twelve.
  
  The clock was just a shade too ornamental for good taste. So were the other
  furnishings in Raul Krendall's den—and so, for that matter was Raul Krendall
  himsel