Under the Green Light
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Under the green light lay poor David Little, a dead man, who lay for several days, undiscovered in an empty public library. A man is falsely accused and a private investigator is hired to prove his innocence but he makes it his personal mission to find the killer, but with limited resources and a circus of suspects, will the murderer be brought to justice, or slip through the fingers of the law?
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