The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem

When Detective Dart and Dr. Archer return to the room where Frimbo was murdered, Officer Brady shows them three objects he found near Frimbo’s chair. These objects are a tooth bridge (false teeth), which Dart and Dr. Archer believe to be Frimbo’s; a black ribbon, which Dr. Archer believes was Frimbo’s head cloth; and a club like the one they found in the other room, which they decide must be the one that was used in the murder due to its inferior physical condition. Detective Dart then has Officer Brady take the club for examination. They also find a powder on the carpet and have it examined.

They then focus on interrogating potential suspects. They start with Bubber Brown, who tells Dart about his detective business investigating cheaters. Bubber says that he arrived at Frimbo’s house after 10 o’clock, and he knows this because he did an investigation for a woman that night, and when it went wrong, he went to Frimbo’s house to meet with Jinx and ask for Frimbo’s advice. Besides him and Jinx, there were also the two women and three other men in the building: number-runner Spider Webb, Doty Hicks, who has a drug addiction, and railroader Easley Jones.