The rope, knotted around the boy's neck, spelled suicide But the fingerprints on the hypodermic syringe at his feet were not his And the medical examiner said that the cause of death was an overdose of heroin Steve Carella couldn't figure why the murderer hadn't really wanted it to look like suicide But Lieutenant Byrnes knew why He knew whose fingerprints were on the syringe He had a solution he couldn't bring himself to believe