Red Gardenias (2011)
“She brought with her a young colored girl to assist in the housework. Crane felt pretty well. He hadn't had enough sleep because he had spent an hour before going back to bed telling Ann Fortune of the deaths from carbon monoxide and of Simeon March's accusation of Carmel, but then he hardly ever had enough sleep. Between the cereal and the eggs, he tried to piece together the scraps of paper thrown by Peter March in the living-room wastebasket. Ann came to the table. "Any luck?" She was, he ha...d to admit, a nice example of what nature could do in the way of a blonde. She was wearing a pair of blue lounging pajamas which contrasted very well with her tanned skin and her eyes, turquoise this morning. "Not much." He grinned at her. "Aren't you going to kiss me good morning?" It appeared that she wasn't. She sat across the table from him, pulled some of the scraps to her. Deftly, she pieced together two liquor bills. They were for June and July and showed by their size that Richard March had entertained extensively.MoreLess
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