Stairway to the Bottom - a Mick Murphy Key West Mystery
“His smile lights up a room when he needs it to and his scowl makes his enemies’ hair stand on end. He’s a dedicated friend and I wouldn’t want to find out what kind of enemy he’d be.For a nanosecond, I thought he was here because he had a fighter on the card at the Seminole Casino north of Miami. But then I knew, without the help of angels, that he was here because of Walsh and the marshals. I couldn’t see a connection, however if you could see Norm coming he wasn’t doing his job. You didn’t se...e him come and you didn’t see him go, usually because you were dead.Norm put Padre Thomas’ Budweiser, my Jameson, and his Kalik on the magic bar and shook our hands, never losing the grin.“What brings you to Paradise?” I knew Norm would rather be in Los Angeles than in Key West—go figure. Island life wasn’t for everyone.He tapped bottles with Padre Thomas and then they both took long swallows of beer.“Can’t a friend stop by for a visit?”“How’d you find me?” I sipped my Jameson and wondered if he’d continue lying.“If I can find your sorry ass in the warehouse district of Panama City, why are you surprised I found you on a small island?”MoreLess
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