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The Case of Black Eckert single work   short story   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1908... 1908 The Case of Black Eckert
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Alcoholic trooper who buried a drunken man still actually alive discovers an illicit still, but cannot get promotion for the find because it is run by the 'legally dead' man he buried, who threatens to expose him.

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