Murder On the Quai
“Searching the phone book at the corner café, with Miles Davis sitting at her feet on the cracked mosaic tiles, Aimée found several listings for the men. After calling a number of them, she whittled them down to three and wrote the addresses in her lab notebook. None of these numbers answered or had an answering machine. She fumed. If only Elise had given her more information. But she was committed now; she couldn’t stop.
She’d take the chance there would be a family member at home at Baret’...s house, given the tragedy. Or maybe Dufard and Royant were there themselves, offering condolences? At least it was a place to start.
She cycled past the Ministry of the Interior’s side exit on rue des Saussaies. Whenever she passed it, she thought of the Resistance members who were tortured in its cells. Her father, who had been inside often, had described the messages and names scratched by fingernails into the walls. “What man did to man”—he’d said with a shake of his head—“under the cloak of Vichy .MoreLess
She’d take the chance there would be a family member at home at Baret’...s house, given the tragedy. Or maybe Dufard and Royant were there themselves, offering condolences? At least it was a place to start.
She cycled past the Ministry of the Interior’s side exit on rue des Saussaies. Whenever she passed it, she thought of the Resistance members who were tortured in its cells. Her father, who had been inside often, had described the messages and names scratched by fingernails into the walls. “What man did to man”—he’d said with a shake of his head—“under the cloak of Vichy .MoreLess
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