Fictional Drug-Dealing Property Investment – How Close To Reality?

by Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au

John Sandford is a former journalist and successful crime novelist who lives in my favourite American State – Minnesota. One of Sandford’s recent novels, Easy Prey, includes the following (slightly edited) account of very plausible police investigations into the Minnesotan real estate holdings of a drug-dealing, double-murder suspect.

When the detectives discover that their drug-dealing, property-investing, murder suspect has had a recent meeting with a real estate agent, they visit this realtor who co-operates fully…

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