Once again, I am forced to confront the Thrilling Days of Yesteryear faithful—hat in hand—with the unfortunate news that I didn’t get the weekly installment of Crime Does Not Pay finished in time for you to be reading that instead of asking yourself “Why does he have his hat in his hand?”  At the beginning of 2017, mi madre was nagging gently reminding me that I promised to do a little straightening up, bedroom-wise, after the first of the year.  The boudoir of your humble narrator, not to put too fine a point on it, looks as if someone blowed up a DVD rental store real good.