Doom Weapon (2007)
Doom Weapon
“There was a crowd outside the sheriff’s office. A lot of people were drinking steaming coffee out of tin cups. A deputy I didn’t recognize was ordering them to stand farther back from the door because the funeral wagon would be arriving soon.
I didn’t blame them. Regular death is pretty exciting. Death by murder is fifty times better. Especially if the death was visited upon the female of the species and especially if she was young and pretty. You live in any city with a tabloid and you know th...at that’s what keeps them in business. You half suspect they go out and commit the grisly murders themselves just to stay in business.
I didn’t know who the deputy was but he seemed to recognize me. He waved me inside.
The small office was crowded. Longsworth, the young attorney, was there with his treasure chest of a briefcase. A minister clutching a Bible to his chest would have looked reverent if he hadn’t been smoking a cigar. And a nurse in white was saying to nobody in particular, “There just wasn’t anything we could do to help her.MoreLess
I didn’t blame them. Regular death is pretty exciting. Death by murder is fifty times better. Especially if the death was visited upon the female of the species and especially if she was young and pretty. You live in any city with a tabloid and you know th...at that’s what keeps them in business. You half suspect they go out and commit the grisly murders themselves just to stay in business.
I didn’t know who the deputy was but he seemed to recognize me. He waved me inside.
The small office was crowded. Longsworth, the young attorney, was there with his treasure chest of a briefcase. A minister clutching a Bible to his chest would have looked reverent if he hadn’t been smoking a cigar. And a nurse in white was saying to nobody in particular, “There just wasn’t anything we could do to help her.MoreLess
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