He was conscious at first of himself, his body sprawled in warmth on its side, covered by the warm slight weight of the blankets, and his head burrowed into the pillow, with light a faint awareness only on his left eyelid. He stretched, not yet opening his eyes, and his arms and legs slid out to ...
One was a local plainclothesman, a comic relief clown who chewed cut plug. One was from the county District Attorney’s office, a ferret with delusions of grandeur. And the third was State CID, an ice-gray man with no tear ducts. I told them all about Bill’s having lost his wife two months ago in ...
A lot of undercurrents under that “current.” A hard-nosed ex-Marine, I wonder how many wives he wore down. The simple son of a bitch was more faithful to his employer than to any woman. Out of the Marines and straight into Oak Crest and stayed there until they dumped him. How close was he to pens...
He had a supper club over on East 59th Street called, oddly enough, Johnny’s Pub. I took a cab, leaving the Mercedes in its garage, since finding a parking space within a dozen blocks of Johnny’s Pub at nine o’clock at night was something only a tourist would try for. Johnny’s Pub was divided in ...