We made it back across the bridge with barely enough time for Peters to make it to Darwin Ridley’s funeral at the Mount Baker Baptist Church. Peters dropped me off at a bus stop on Rainier Avenue South. I grabbed a Metro bus jammed with rowdy schoolkids for a snail’s-pace ride downtown. If I were...
As far as I could see, Death in Drydock was pretty much in the can, but I had still not been officially dismissed. I headed for the coffee station where I found Woody Carroll seated on a folding chair leaning back against the building. He was drinking coffee from a styrofoam cup and holding a new...
“Beau,” Sue Danielson said. “What’s up?” “Let’s see,” I said. “One or two things. Jimmy Greenjeans is missing. Barry Newsome is dead along with a Native American artifact dealer named Calvin Owens. And Don Atkins appears to have taken off. Not only that, Tony Lawson turns out to be David Half Moo...
“Watty said Detectives Kramer and Arnold were here. I thought you were supposed to be working on the floater?” he said. It seemed to me I’d already been down that path. “I am working the floater,” I said. “This is his apartment. Our initial and still tentative I.D. would indicate that the dead wo...
chat, but I think she would have been disappointed had she been a mouse in the corner and able to hear it. Because, other than those few veiled references to Mike and Lucy Conyers when Lars first came out of the shower, we didn’t mention them again, either directly or indirectly, for most of the ...
“How’s it going, Rico?” Andy said to him. The doctor, Enrico Rodriguez, looked up from the chart, saw Halvorsen, and smiled. The two of them evidently knew each other. “Not bad, Andy. This your case?” He closed the chart, impatiently drumming his fingers across the metal cover. Halvorsen nodded. ...
Our newest doorman, Kevin, let me into the lobby, where I stopped long enough to pick up my mail and punch the Up button on the elevator. When the elevator door opened, there was a dog inside—a dog and no one else. And not just one of those little, yappy waste-of-fur dogs, either. This was a big ...