Gilded Nightmare
“He looked at Masters, uncertainly, then took Hardy by the arm and led him a few steps down the hall. Chambrun and Masters and I couldn’t hear the conversation at the time, but a few minutes later Chambrun and I knew that Molloy and his men had come on something. The service elevator at the end of the hall had been checked out as a matter of routine, and fresh bloodstains were found on the floor of the car. It was possible they had no connection with the murder, but a sample had been rushed off to the police lab to check the blood type against the dead girl’s.
It was possible, Molloy told Hardy, for the body to have been taken down in the service elevator and carried, through a maze of back alleys, to the spot where it had been found without its ever being taken out onto the street. It would explain something that had been bothering the Homicide men—how, at eleven o’clock at night when the area around the Beaumont was still pretty busy, the girl could have been attacked out in the open... without anyone seeing or hearing a thing.MoreLess
It was possible, Molloy told Hardy, for the body to have been taken down in the service elevator and carried, through a maze of back alleys, to the spot where it had been found without its ever being taken out onto the street. It would explain something that had been bothering the Homicide men—how, at eleven o’clock at night when the area around the Beaumont was still pretty busy, the girl could have been attacked out in the open... without anyone seeing or hearing a thing.MoreLess
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