Ralph Noland? Do we have the wrong address?” Isabella’s voice reflected her bewilderment as she read the name listed near the large brass knocker on the door of the rowhouse at number 135 East Ninety-first Street. According to Stella’s letter, we could expect to find Cora Czerne here. The house w...
Weight: 185 lbs. Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Prominent features: Triangle of three tattooed dots on knob of right wrist (the symbol of Mi Vida Loca, My Crazy Life, the motto of the Latin Kings); tattoo on left arm (I will never quit, warrior ethos). Current Address: 3884 Broadway (Washington Heights)...
6 P.M. “There’s no one here by that name, sir.” A young man with tousled brown hair frowned after examining the register. “Definitely no Sinclair registered here. Perhaps you have the wrong hotel?” “He would have checked in Wednesday,” I said, insistent. “Late afternoon, between four and five o’...
But what you say about him is sufficiently troubling; perhaps we ought to reconsider.” Alistair was uncharacteristically reflective once I’d finished telling him and Isabella about my excursion into the Black and Tan quarter. We were having dinner at Mama’s— an “experimental” restaurant that litt...