Loren D. Estleman - Amos Walker 17 - Retro
“The left was staring at something halfway between it and infinity.
It was a head shot, and until I knew what I was looking at I turned it sideways trying for vertical. The head lay on glistening asphalt, presenting a three-quarter view of a fine-featured, African-cast face with a thin Little Richard moustache that clung to the full upper lip like liner. A pale collar with long tabs encircled a muscular neck with custom-made fidelity, spread just enough to display a glossy knot and under it the ...top half of a medium-wide necktie with an Art Deco pattern. I saw one lapel of a houndstooth overcoat, broad and notched. The man wearing it looked surprised and knowing at the same time. I’d seen the expression before, always with a combination of envy and relief.
I glanced at the back. A faded stamp read PROPERTY OCSD 12/31/49 DO NOT REMOVE FROM PREMISES. I didn’t know what an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department crime photo was doing in a folder with Delwayne Garnet’s name on it.
The next item of interest was an original birth certificate issued by Wayne County, recording the appearance in Detroit General Hospital of Delwayne Lance West, boy, on June 11, 1950.MoreLess
It was a head shot, and until I knew what I was looking at I turned it sideways trying for vertical. The head lay on glistening asphalt, presenting a three-quarter view of a fine-featured, African-cast face with a thin Little Richard moustache that clung to the full upper lip like liner. A pale collar with long tabs encircled a muscular neck with custom-made fidelity, spread just enough to display a glossy knot and under it the ...top half of a medium-wide necktie with an Art Deco pattern. I saw one lapel of a houndstooth overcoat, broad and notched. The man wearing it looked surprised and knowing at the same time. I’d seen the expression before, always with a combination of envy and relief.
I glanced at the back. A faded stamp read PROPERTY OCSD 12/31/49 DO NOT REMOVE FROM PREMISES. I didn’t know what an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department crime photo was doing in a folder with Delwayne Garnet’s name on it.
The next item of interest was an original birth certificate issued by Wayne County, recording the appearance in Detroit General Hospital of Delwayne Lance West, boy, on June 11, 1950.MoreLess
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