Dead On the Level (1979)
“It seemed that something had started brewing; something was being done even if he wasn’t sure just what. He felt good enough to stop and pick up a late lunch and to speculate, with a crooked grin, how Miss Nardis must have reacted to being stuck with the check for that earlier lunch he didn’t stay to eat. And he speculated, too, about how Lance Gorden must be feeling at this late hour of a damp, gray afternoon.
Now, by sharpening his imagination, Casey could almost see the end of this fantastic... ordeal. He could almost feel the pressure lifting and see those beautiful headlines: Gorden Confesses Brunner Murder. It made nice dreaming except for the afterward; there the dream stopped cold. He couldn’t understand it. The afterward was all planned, a nice, quiet annulment in exchange for a nice, fat settlement; or maybe one not so quiet just in case there was any argument about the money. That was all Casey Morrow wanted. But even as he told himself these things, he knew they were lies.MoreLess
Now, by sharpening his imagination, Casey could almost see the end of this fantastic... ordeal. He could almost feel the pressure lifting and see those beautiful headlines: Gorden Confesses Brunner Murder. It made nice dreaming except for the afterward; there the dream stopped cold. He couldn’t understand it. The afterward was all planned, a nice, quiet annulment in exchange for a nice, fat settlement; or maybe one not so quiet just in case there was any argument about the money. That was all Casey Morrow wanted. But even as he told himself these things, he knew they were lies.MoreLess
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