French Polished Murder (2010)
French Polished Murder
“Well, obviously not, since he brought me chocolates and flowers and took me out dancing. However, it had forever destroyed any mystique associated with police stations.
What the downtown police station in Goldport looked like was . . . a nineteenth-century bank. This was not exactly strange, since most of the commercial buildings downtown looked like banks. It was as if everyone back in the late eighteen hundreds had used the same architect, someone who had never been out of Goldport. All he kn...ew about what commercial buildings were supposed to look like came from a picture of a bank in Denver that he’d seen in a newspaper.
So, except for two buildings that had gone up sometime in the late nineties, which were the usual very tall, blank glass-faced monstrosities, every other commercial building was a squat stone square.
Some of them, like the police station, were at least pretty, since they were made of mellow gold-bearing rock. On a clear afternoon, you could see the sun glint on the stone façades of Goldport’s commercial district.MoreLess
What the downtown police station in Goldport looked like was . . . a nineteenth-century bank. This was not exactly strange, since most of the commercial buildings downtown looked like banks. It was as if everyone back in the late eighteen hundreds had used the same architect, someone who had never been out of Goldport. All he kn...ew about what commercial buildings were supposed to look like came from a picture of a bank in Denver that he’d seen in a newspaper.
So, except for two buildings that had gone up sometime in the late nineties, which were the usual very tall, blank glass-faced monstrosities, every other commercial building was a squat stone square.
Some of them, like the police station, were at least pretty, since they were made of mellow gold-bearing rock. On a clear afternoon, you could see the sun glint on the stone façades of Goldport’s commercial district.MoreLess
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