“He assumed Pendergast could fix that, as he seemed able to fix everything else."You picked a convenient time to disappear." Davies's voice was laced with irony."I didn't pick it. It picked me.""Have a seat.""Well, I was just on my way-""Oh, I beg your pardon-I didn't realize you had a pressing engagement."On hearing the icy tone in the voice, Smithback decided to sit down. He was dying to see Nora, but it wouldn't pay to piss off Davies any more than he already had."Bryce Harriman was able to t...ake up the slack during your recent indisposition, both on the Duchamp killing and that other one up at the museum, since the police are now saying they're linked-"Smithback sat forward in the chair. "Excuse me. Did you say a murder up at the museum? What museum?""You really have been out of it. The New York Museum of Natural History. A curator was murdered there three days ago-""Who?""Nobody I'd heard of. Don't worry about it, you're long off that story-Harriman's taken it over." He snapped up a manila envelope.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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