Dagger
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Texas oil billionaire and exotic weapons collector Bump Stedman paid a cheap two million on the black market for a priceless ruby-handled dagger, a treasure stolen from the Malacca Sultinate, but the dagger carries with it the power to excite boundless greed, which leads to a series of murders and draws Atlanta vice cop Dominick Kemp into a lethal trap. Nobody is who they initially appear to be in this lead story of the author's lifetime short story collection.
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