American Detective: An Amos Walker Novel (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
Alderdyce said. “Twice.” “I came straight here with it,” I said. “Well, I stopped for lunch. I didn’t have much breakfast.” “You never do. You like to hit the ground running and screw me over early. I’m talking about before. Charlotte Sing’s name kind of never came up.” “I was sparing you extraneous detail. At the time it looked like she’d been dealt out of the hand.” “Except she hadn’t.” “One of her companies owns most of the frontage on Black Squirrel Lake. I got that from Phillips and confirmed it with Violet Pershing, the local Peninsular rep. That makes Madame Sing the majority member of the property owners’ association there, and security Captain Fred Loudermilk’s employer. He’d answer to her for little things like aiding and abetting a fugitive from justice and the assault on the odd private eye.” Detective Burrough pushed back the brim of the hat he wasn’t wearing today. “Odd is right. That’s a stetch and a half.” “Tell me about the part where she didn’t count,”
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