Ashes From A Burning Corpse

On a hot rainy summer night in Nassau, the Bahamas, in 1943, someone murdered Sir Harry Oakes, one of the richest men in the world, as he slept. When police found him the next morning, there were four wounds to his skull. His corpse had been abused, covered ritualistically with feathers and set on fire. The murder was perverse, horrific and jaded by anyone's standards.
A few evenings later in New York City, the phone rang in the home of Alan Hynd, identified in that era by the NY Times as A...