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The sun dipped low over Harlem, casting long shadows against the boarded-up windows of the Collyer brownstone. Nobody had seen Langley or Homer in weeks, but that wasn’t unusual. The neighbors had learned to ignore the reclusive brothers years ago. What could you say about two men who lived in a house bursting at the seams with newspapers, broken appliances, and God only knew what else? Some whispered that the brothers were rich eccentrics; others thought they were mad. Everyone agreed on one thing: the house was as impenetrable as a fortres...
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Cliff Daniels loved order. As a veteran IRS agent, his greatest joy was the smooth clicking of a calculator and the neat, satisfying rows of balanced accounts. He wasn’t popular at the office—“by-the-book Cliff” didn’t make friends easily—but that didn’t bother him. He believed in the system, in fairness, in everyone paying their share.So when Doris Thompson’s case landed on his desk, Cliff approached it with the same precision he applied to every audit. Doris, an eighty-year-old widow, had been making payments to the IRS for decades. The pr...
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