Suicide Season (2012)
““You don’t seem very happy about it, my man. This is what you literate types call a break in the case.”
“Yeah, it is. But it still doesn’t prove anything.”
“Come on, Dev—this is an unlisted number. It’s a private pipeline to the opposition. And it was in that envelope full of crap that came out of his damned desk.” The big man peered at me. “Or do you mean you don’t want it to prove anything?”
That was it. I had been thinking of Haas and Carrie Busey and the effect of their affair—if she did no...t already know of it—on Margaret. And now that little scrap of paper that had been buried in Haas’s personal effects threatened to rake all that garbage and more to the surface again.
“She asked for it, Dev. She asked for the information because she wanted to be sure. And the reason she wanted to be sure was because she had her doubts. We both know that.”
True enough. People often hired p.i.’s to find the evidence that would deny what, in their hearts, they suspected.MoreLess
“Yeah, it is. But it still doesn’t prove anything.”
“Come on, Dev—this is an unlisted number. It’s a private pipeline to the opposition. And it was in that envelope full of crap that came out of his damned desk.” The big man peered at me. “Or do you mean you don’t want it to prove anything?”
That was it. I had been thinking of Haas and Carrie Busey and the effect of their affair—if she did no...t already know of it—on Margaret. And now that little scrap of paper that had been buried in Haas’s personal effects threatened to rake all that garbage and more to the surface again.
“She asked for it, Dev. She asked for the information because she wanted to be sure. And the reason she wanted to be sure was because she had her doubts. We both know that.”
True enough. People often hired p.i.’s to find the evidence that would deny what, in their hearts, they suspected.MoreLess
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