1942 Cool & Lam (A. A. Fair)

Double or Quits

Client Dr. Hilton Teasdale

Case Narrative & Plot Summary

An insurance company wants to locate a missing cache of blue-white diamonds before they pay out twenty thousand dollars on a safe robbery claim.

Donald Lam's Legal Gambit

Donald uses micro-scale balance weights and specific gravity water displacement tests to prove the vault diamonds were switched for paste glass.

Bertha Cool Dictum
"Cash on the barrelhead, Donald. The insurance boys are tighter than bark on a tree."