I'll Get You for This

Authors: James Hadley Chase

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“Car tyres bit gravel. Doors slammed. Feet pounded on concrete. I stood in the shadow of the wall facing the rear exit of Miss Spence's apartment block. It wasn't a particularly good place to be in with a flock of buttons buzzing around, but I'd been in worse places. The alley was narrow and sealed at one end. The other end, opening on to the front drive, was lit by a white-blue overhead lamp. I held the Luger in my right fist, and edged along the shadows. I came to the dead end, looked up. A couple of feet above me I could see the dark sky and the stars. I looked back down the alley. A flat, capped figure was peering around the corner of the wall. He couldn't see me, but I could see him. He was very cautious, but I could have drilled him between the eyes without buying myself a truss. He seemed shy of showing me any more of himself. Maybe he thought his head was made of bullet-proof steel.

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