Ross Macdonald - Lew Archer 01 - The Moving Target(aka Harper)(1949) - Plot & Excerpts
Peter Colton was at the flat-topped desk in his office. He had been my colonel in Intelligence. When I opened the ground-glass door he glanced up sharply from a pile of police reports, then lowered his eyes immediately to show that I wasn’t welcome. He was a senior investigator in the D. A.‘s office, a heavy middle-aged man with cropped fair hair and a violent nose like the prow of a speedboat inverted. His office was a plaster cubicle with a single steel-framed window. I made myself uncomfortable on a hard-backed chair against the wall. After a while he pointed his nose at me. “What happened to that which, for want of a better term, I choose to call your face?” “I got into an argument.” “And you want me to arrest the neighborhood bully.” His smile dragged down the corners of his mouth. “You’ll have to fight your own battles, my little man, unless of course there’s something in it for me.” “A popsicle,”
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