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Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. The Lost boy 1 2. “We have the Child” 9 3. “An obscure Country Merchant” 22 4. “Call in All the Spies” 33 5. Searching for Little Skeegie 48 6. “The Greatest Manhunt ever Seen in florida” 59 7. interrogating the Carpenter 69 8. The Paperboy 79 9. Sheriff of Dade County 97 10. Politics and Peccadillos 104 11. “A Roll of Money as big as My head” 110 12. found 116 13. Skeegie’s funeral 126 14. “The Most Cold-blooded Thing i ever heard of” 136 15. time Runs out 147 Afterword 155 notes 159 bibliography 185 index 191 illustrations follow page 89 ...

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