Two, his mother was a woman of easy virtue. Three, his sister was worse than his mother. Back at the station, he walked past Catarella without the other’s noticing, engrossed as he was in the computer. A whole regiment of gangsters could have entered those offices with a single shot being fired. Back in his room, he opened the little bag Fazio had brought him and pulled out the set of keys that had belonged to Angelo. He immediately noticed a key that looked exactly like the one he had in his pocket, which was supposed to open a strongbox. Normally those locks came equipped with only two keys. Thus the one they’d found under the drawer must be a spare key Angelo kept hidden. So he’d been wrong about Michela. It couldn’t have been she who took the strongbox; she had no way to open it. Perhaps the box hadn’t disappeared from Angelo’s apartment because it had never been there in the first place.
