Tickled to Death And Other Stories of Crime And Suspense (2012)
“It was reassuring, but not reassuring enough. Not enough money, in fact. One five-pound note and four ones. The second man had said he only had four, and, since the job was done and he had threatened to throw her out of the car, she had been in no position to argue.
Just two punters—not a lot for a cold night’s work. Two depressed kerb-crawlers, desperate for their perfunctory relief. She knew she had been working a bad pitch, but the other girls had been around for a long time and had territor...ial rights. Most of them had protectors to enforce those rights, too. Couldn’t expect it to be easy starting up in a new town.
And she’d had to leave London. The size of the rents had driven her out of Soho, and none of the club-owners were going to offer her anything now her looks had gone. It was ironic to think that only eight years before she’d been Big Tony’s girl and queened it at the Salamander Club. But cancer had wasted Big Tony away to nothing, the Salamander had been sold up and reopened as a specialist cinema club, and now she was just a tired old whore trying to make another start.MoreLess
Just two punters—not a lot for a cold night’s work. Two depressed kerb-crawlers, desperate for their perfunctory relief. She knew she had been working a bad pitch, but the other girls had been around for a long time and had territor...ial rights. Most of them had protectors to enforce those rights, too. Couldn’t expect it to be easy starting up in a new town.
And she’d had to leave London. The size of the rents had driven her out of Soho, and none of the club-owners were going to offer her anything now her looks had gone. It was ironic to think that only eight years before she’d been Big Tony’s girl and queened it at the Salamander Club. But cancer had wasted Big Tony away to nothing, the Salamander had been sold up and reopened as a specialist cinema club, and now she was just a tired old whore trying to make another start.MoreLess
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