The playground part is the best. This is far more darkly
humorous than most Cain. Would make for a great black comedy,
frankly. I mean, if it weren't so tragic and all.
Michael
>I believe it is not uncommon for people to "do things
they ordinarily
>wouldn't do" because of love or obsession. A few
years ago in my
>neighborhood, a guy I knew started an affair with the
wife of a doctor who
>treated my kids a few times. The woman and her doctor
husband separated
and
>there was a very bitter custody battle. One evening
the doctor answered his
>door and was shot and killed in a professional hit.
It happened about a
block from my house. After a lengthy investigation, the
police arrested and a court convicted the lover for hiring
the hit. He's in jail, the wife got the kids, the hitman was
never caught and there's a playground named in honor of the
dead doctor.
>How did they convict the lover? A few months after
the murder, the wife
>dumped the lover and he became so depressed he
decided to kill himself. He
>wrote a suicide note confessing all and then couldn't
pull the trigger. But
the idiot didn't destroy the note and one day a son from his
previous marriage found it and gave it to the police.
>So can life sometimes resemble a James M. Cain plot?
Yes.
>Richard Moore
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