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Robbery/Homicide had an open case under the name Laputa. The investigation wasn’t currently active, due to a lack of evidence and leads.Four years ago, a woman named Justine Laputa, age sixty-eight, had been murdered in crime-scene address proved to be the residence that Hazard now had under surveillance.Watching the house 476] Mina Reynerd’s death, by lamp, had been likewise brutal.“Who were the detectives on the case?” Hazard asked.“Walt Sunderland, for one.”“I know him.”“I got lucky,” Laura said, “caught him on minutes ago. Told him I couldn’t right now explain why I needed to know, then asked if he’d had a suspect in that case. Didn’t hesitateas he spoke with Laura, Hazard said, “How did she die?”“The entire file isn’t on , just the open-case extract. According to that, she was bludgeoned to death with a fireplace poker.”Mina Reynerd had been shot in the foot, but the actual cause of her death had been bludgeoning with a marble-and-bronze lamp.A fireplace poker. A heavy lamp. In both cases, the killer had resorted to a blunt instrument near at hand. This might not be proof enough of one modus operandi, one killer, but it was a start.“Justine’s murder was savage, unusually violent,” Laura said. “The medical examiner estimates the killer delivered between forty and fifty blows with the poker.”[