Chapter 54 · for subscribers
The oldest trick in this trade and the worst: put the thing down in the open and watch the hands. I had done it twice in twenty years and it had worked both times, because a thief has to come within arm's length of what he wants. It did not occur to me once, standing there in the sun with my coat open, that the man I was fishing for had never come within arm's length of anything in his life.
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