Today’s episode is based on the noir short “Dead on Christmas Street” by John D. MacDonald.

Loreen Garrity would have much rather joined the shoppers on the street below her than be stuck up on the seventeenth floor filing paperwork for Kistner Accounting. But she didn’t expect to join them by being pushed from her office window to the ground below.

And Loreen Garrity put up a fight. A big enough one that the police who arrive on the scene can tell immediately there’s no chance of this death being ruled a holiday suicide. There is no doubt Loreen was pushed.

And there’s also very little doubt as to why. Loreen Garrity was the only eye witness in an attempted armed bank robbery by three young men, one of whom just happens to be the little brother of a well known crime boss with a whole network of people whose job it is to clean up his messes.

Did Loreen Garrity get on the wrong side of the Servius Brothers? Or was her involvement in the case just a clever cover up for someone else who wanted Loreen dead?

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