Buried Caesars
“He sat in his dental chair sulking behind the morning paper.
He had been choked, humiliated and kept in the dark. The patient he had started to clean up for, Dashiell Hammett, probably wasn’t coming. With good reason, Sheldon Minck assumed it was all my fault.
“They won’t come back, Shel,” I said. “They know I’ll get out of here. Besides, I’ll have them nailed by the end of the day if the cops don’t catch them now.”
A distant siren suggested that the cops hadn’t caught up with Wylie... and Conrad, which didn’t say much for the Los Angeles Police Department since Conrad was driving with a concussion. But, then again, the police had lost most of their youngest and sharpest to the armed forces.
Shelly grunted and rustled his paper. A puff of angry cigar smoke curled over the top of the pages.
“I’ll check in later,” I said. “You’ll have to interview Louise-Mary without me.”MoreLess
He had been choked, humiliated and kept in the dark. The patient he had started to clean up for, Dashiell Hammett, probably wasn’t coming. With good reason, Sheldon Minck assumed it was all my fault.
“They won’t come back, Shel,” I said. “They know I’ll get out of here. Besides, I’ll have them nailed by the end of the day if the cops don’t catch them now.”
A distant siren suggested that the cops hadn’t caught up with Wylie... and Conrad, which didn’t say much for the Los Angeles Police Department since Conrad was driving with a concussion. But, then again, the police had lost most of their youngest and sharpest to the armed forces.
Shelly grunted and rustled his paper. A puff of angry cigar smoke curled over the top of the pages.
“I’ll check in later,” I said. “You’ll have to interview Louise-Mary without me.”MoreLess
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