The Emerald Cat Killer
“After the creaky old structure on McKinley Avenue, the nearby replacement looked modern and efficient from the outside. From the inside it resembled a medieval dungeon. Well, progress was progress.
Lindsey had phoned ahead and he was met by a uniformed sergeant who could have passed for a shaving-lotion model. If there were such things anymore. Blond, blue-eyed, clean-shaven, and wearing a uniform that must have been custom-fitted. He looked like a private eye from a Richard Prather paperback, ...suddenly drafted into the official police force.
“Olaf Strombeck,” the shaving-lotion model introduced himself. They shook hands, exchanged business cards, and proceeded to Strombeck’s office, Lindsey now wearing a visitor’s badge on his jacket pocket. You would have thought they were a couple of Japanese businessmen meeting to cut a billion-dollar deal for some futuristic electronic gadget, not an insurance man and a detective sitting down to discuss a murder.
Strombeck had pulled a file and laid it on his desk, but before opening it he said, “Mr.MoreLess
Lindsey had phoned ahead and he was met by a uniformed sergeant who could have passed for a shaving-lotion model. If there were such things anymore. Blond, blue-eyed, clean-shaven, and wearing a uniform that must have been custom-fitted. He looked like a private eye from a Richard Prather paperback, ...suddenly drafted into the official police force.
“Olaf Strombeck,” the shaving-lotion model introduced himself. They shook hands, exchanged business cards, and proceeded to Strombeck’s office, Lindsey now wearing a visitor’s badge on his jacket pocket. You would have thought they were a couple of Japanese businessmen meeting to cut a billion-dollar deal for some futuristic electronic gadget, not an insurance man and a detective sitting down to discuss a murder.
Strombeck had pulled a file and laid it on his desk, but before opening it he said, “Mr.MoreLess
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