Like Love - 87th Precinct, Bk 16 Author:Ed McBain Who turned on the gas?
It was obviously a lover's pact, a sad but simple double suicide; the note, the naked bodies on the bed, empty booze bottles, shut windows, and gas pouring out of the kitchen stove. Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes should have wrapped it up nice and neat--suicide. Case closed.
Yet somehow everything was a little too neat.....