The Rekey

Marty Hobart is Ferron, Ohio's twenty-four-hour locksmith. Fifteen years ago he opened Apartment 4B at Cedar Court for a man who said he'd been locked out -- and never asked who was inside. Ada Tull was dead behind that door, and Marty's silence became part of her husband's story.

Tonight Wade Tull walks into the shop -- dying, weeks to live, carrying the original page two of Ada's police file, stolen from the records room he has cleaned for fifteen years. His terms: one off-book opening, a ...