Someone had handled the murder book and read my notes.

There wouldn't have been time to read the murder book itself, but the cards were more important.

"She's had access to the murder book from the start?"

"Did he want to research his murder book or not?"

The dark blue murder book was open on his desk, but he didn't seem to be looking at it.

I closed the murder book, then went to the kitchen.

Pounds reached into the drawer and pulled up another blue murder book.

I'm going through everything and putting the murder book together.

He gets the murder book from the police archives and reviews the case.

He opened the murder book to the evidence list and made sure nothing was missing.