James Asher 2 - Traveling With The Dead - Plot & Excerpts
Dr. Bedford Fairport fidgeted with the cuffs of his gray cotton gloves and flinched away from a stout blond policeman who came through the station-house duty room with a musically inclined drunk in tow. Much was made of Vienna’s reputation as “The City of Music.” Asher wondered whether this was what its enthusiasts had in mind. The drunks with whom he had shared his cell the previous night had both sung, though not always the same songs. One was a Wagnerian, the other a disciple of Richard Strauss. It had been a long night. “Mistake, hell.” Asher closed his valise, having satisfied himself that its contents—including the key waxes and counterfeit baggage-room seals in the secret pocket—were untouched. A uniformed clerk offered him a release to sign, then a paper for Fairport. “Karolyi must have seen me when I got off to telegraph Streatham in Munich. I suppose I should be glad it isn’t worse.” “The honorable Herr will be staying with Herr Professor Doktor Fairport?”
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