Dead Man's Diary — Brett Halliday

A MYSTERY HOUSE REPRINT: Jasper Groat was a tidy man with a tidy conscience. This very passion for neatness -- he had seen fit to record all the harrowing details of the torpedoing of the S.S. Okeechobee and his subsequent experiences on a life raft -- caused his murder. For another man had died on the raft and, as Mike Shayne explained: “When a man thinks he's going to die he tells things he wouldn't dream of telling otherwise -- things that wouldn't look good in print.”