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    Felony
    Felony
    Felony
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    Felony

    By Vidmer and James Causey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Felony

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      Felony - Vidmer

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Felony, by James Causey

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Felony

      Author: James Causey

      Illustrator: Vidmer

      Release Date: April 8, 2010 [EBook #31922]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FELONY ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction July 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      FELONY

      By JAMES CAUSEY

      Illustrated by VIDMER

      Vogel started with crossword puzzles ... and worked his way up to Man's greatest enigma!

      hen he was nine, Vogel almost killed another boy who inadvertently scattered his half-completed jigsaw puzzle.

      At sixteen, he discovered the mysteries of the Danish Gambit, and cried.

      At twenty-two, he crouched in a foxhole on Okinawa, oblivious to the death bursting about him, squinting in a painful ecstasy at the tattered fragment of newspaper on his knee. His sergeant screamed in agony, then died at his elbow. Vogel's face lit up. Slay, he said happily, scribbling. As crossword puzzles go, it had been a toughie.

      At thirty, he was Production Manager of Sachs Fixtures. His men hated him. The General Manager loved him. Tall, gaunt and ruthless, he could glance at any detail print and instantly pinpoint the pattern of final assembly, total man-hour budget and fabrication lead time.

      Once, he made a mistake.

      On a forty-thousand-dollar job lot he

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