Death's Savage Passion
“The blind, stupid, all-powerful arrogance.”
I closed my eyes and put the back of my head against the disguised cement block of the wall. We were in the lobby of Caroline Dooley’s apartment building. That was what the two young patrolmen thought of as “neutral territory.” They couldn’t leave us in Caroline’s apartment—not only had the fire made it uninhabitable, the body had made it a possible crime scene. They didn’t want to take us to the nearest precinct. I might be some kind of nut, no matte...r what Tony Marsh said. They might be liable for a charge of false arrest, assuming they could figure out who to arrest.
The cigarette between the fingers of my right hand felt like it weighed five pounds. My wrist felt close to cracking. It was all happening too fast. My emotions were having a hard time catching up. Sarah English in Dana’s reception room. Sarah English in Caroline Dooley’s apartment. Sarah English in Holbrook. Sarah English.
Once upon a time, I wanted to play the big, sophisticated New York writer.MoreLess
I closed my eyes and put the back of my head against the disguised cement block of the wall. We were in the lobby of Caroline Dooley’s apartment building. That was what the two young patrolmen thought of as “neutral territory.” They couldn’t leave us in Caroline’s apartment—not only had the fire made it uninhabitable, the body had made it a possible crime scene. They didn’t want to take us to the nearest precinct. I might be some kind of nut, no matte...r what Tony Marsh said. They might be liable for a charge of false arrest, assuming they could figure out who to arrest.
The cigarette between the fingers of my right hand felt like it weighed five pounds. My wrist felt close to cracking. It was all happening too fast. My emotions were having a hard time catching up. Sarah English in Dana’s reception room. Sarah English in Caroline Dooley’s apartment. Sarah English in Holbrook. Sarah English.
Once upon a time, I wanted to play the big, sophisticated New York writer.MoreLess
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