Big Kiss-Off (1982)
“If a Coast Guard boat should stop him, he didn’t want the dead man aboard. After two years in Pyongyang, he had all he could stomach of prisons and prison camps.
In this instance he had played it smart. This way he might be suspected of killing Laval but no one could prove anything.
Cade considered weighting the body but could find nothing aboard the cruiser he could spare. It had taken every penny he’d had to buy the boat and outfit it as meagerly as he had. In the back of his mind he supposed... he’d reasoned that if he ran too short of cash he could always put a small mortgage on the old home place. Now the old house was gone. Tocko had bought it at his price, with Janice thrown in for lagniappe.
Mimi eyed the dead man with feminine distaste. “You knew him?”
Cade touched his swollen nose and the adhesive tape under his eye. “Very well. He gave me these last night. At least, he had his deputy do it.”
“Why?”
“He didn’t say. He did order me to be out of town by noon.”MoreLess
In this instance he had played it smart. This way he might be suspected of killing Laval but no one could prove anything.
Cade considered weighting the body but could find nothing aboard the cruiser he could spare. It had taken every penny he’d had to buy the boat and outfit it as meagerly as he had. In the back of his mind he supposed... he’d reasoned that if he ran too short of cash he could always put a small mortgage on the old home place. Now the old house was gone. Tocko had bought it at his price, with Janice thrown in for lagniappe.
Mimi eyed the dead man with feminine distaste. “You knew him?”
Cade touched his swollen nose and the adhesive tape under his eye. “Very well. He gave me these last night. At least, he had his deputy do it.”
“Why?”
“He didn’t say. He did order me to be out of town by noon.”MoreLess
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