Speed Kills: Who Killed the Cigarette Boat King, the Fastest Man on the Seas?

“Ocean racing superstar Don Aronow loved it when writers called him a living legend. His life of adventure is well known. It is his death that baffles police.

“He was afraid of nothing, no one. In his final hour, when a stranger spoke to him in riddles and talked about killing, Aronow laughed. He felt no fear, until he lowered the window of his white Mercedes and looked death in the face. And then it was too late.”

-- Edna Buchanan, in The Miami Herald

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