Nero Wolfe 16 - Even in the Best Families
“Wolfe said, “was possible. I had accepted money from Mrs. Rackham and she had been murdered. I was committed in her interest, and therefore against Arnold Zeck, and I was no match for him. I had to ambush him. With me gone, how should you act? You should act as if I had disappeared and you knew nothing. Under what circumstances would you do that most convincingly? You are capable of dissimulation, but why try you so severely? Why not merely—”
“Skip it,” I told him. “Save it for later. Where do ...we stand now, and what chance have we got? Any at all?”
“I think so, yes. If the purpose were merely to expose one or more of Zeck’s operations, it could be done like that.” He snapped his fingers. “But since he must himself be destroyed—all I can say is that I have reached the point where you can help. I have talked with him three times.”
“Exactly who and what are you?”
“I come from Los Angeles. When I left here, on April ninth, I went to southern Texas, on the Gulf, and spent there the most painful month in my life—except one, long ago.MoreLess
“Skip it,” I told him. “Save it for later. Where do ...we stand now, and what chance have we got? Any at all?”
“I think so, yes. If the purpose were merely to expose one or more of Zeck’s operations, it could be done like that.” He snapped his fingers. “But since he must himself be destroyed—all I can say is that I have reached the point where you can help. I have talked with him three times.”
“Exactly who and what are you?”
“I come from Los Angeles. When I left here, on April ninth, I went to southern Texas, on the Gulf, and spent there the most painful month in my life—except one, long ago.MoreLess
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