“They Killed Him Dead”
by L. Ron Hubbard

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Publication date: May 1936

Original publication: Detective Fiction Weekly

Genre: Mystery & Suspense

Story description: When a crack New York homicide detective, notorious for his thoroughness, arrests five people for the same murder, reality can start to look very perplexing.

Currently available as part of the Stories from the Golden Age series, in the title Killer’s Law.