Camouflage (Nameless Detective Mysteries)
“Another few minutes and the law would be here and they’d be the ones to break the news to Darby. Now Runyon would have to do it. And it was bound to make a bad situation even worse.
Runyon made a slow advance, his hands spread in front of him. “Take it easy, Mr. Darby. Bryn’s here, too—she’s in with Bobby.”
“Bryn? She has no more right in my home than you do.” Glowering, glancing around. “Where’s Francine?”
“There’s been some trouble.”
“… What do you mean, trouble?”
“An accident, pretty bad. Th...e police are on the way.”
Darby was a big man, jowly and going soft around the middle, but he had one of those faces that make some lawyers better than others in a courtroom: smooth, tight, unreadable, his feelings hidden behind a pair of piercing gray eyes. He stared at Runyon as if he were a hostile witness who had just made an outrageous statement on the stand.
“What kind of accident? What are you telling me?”
“Maybe you’d better sit down—”
“Answer my question.MoreLess
Runyon made a slow advance, his hands spread in front of him. “Take it easy, Mr. Darby. Bryn’s here, too—she’s in with Bobby.”
“Bryn? She has no more right in my home than you do.” Glowering, glancing around. “Where’s Francine?”
“There’s been some trouble.”
“… What do you mean, trouble?”
“An accident, pretty bad. Th...e police are on the way.”
Darby was a big man, jowly and going soft around the middle, but he had one of those faces that make some lawyers better than others in a courtroom: smooth, tight, unreadable, his feelings hidden behind a pair of piercing gray eyes. He stared at Runyon as if he were a hostile witness who had just made an outrageous statement on the stand.
“What kind of accident? What are you telling me?”
“Maybe you’d better sit down—”
“Answer my question.MoreLess
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