MacDonald’s new book, One Fearful Yellow Eye. He was quite the fan of MacDonald’s “salvage consultant” Travis McGee and his live-aboard houseboat The Busted Flush, and a quiet read of the new book was part of the plan for his evening off. He and Jack Mills, who he’d be seeing soon, would rather have been out with the ladies in their lives. It was, after all, Saint Valentine’s Day. But Sue was still in France, and Helen, despite Jack’s most persuasive arguments in favour of the saint, was studying for her next professional examination, the fearsome Second MB. Erskine Mayne’s book and stationery store on Donegall Square West, across from Belfast City Hall, was large and quiet. The current proprietor was the fifth member of the Mayne family, originally from Scotland, to be running the old establishment. The ancient wooden floors were well worn, and the high ceilings were embellished with ornate mouldings. People spoke softly to the store assistants as if they were in a library, and the place had that smell of dust and paper unique to bookstores and library stacks.
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