Mystery Murder
in front of 745 East 38th Street, and that address held memories, most of them sour, for the personnel at Homicide East, from Darwin down. A violent death that
d surroundings. A photographer took shots from various angles. Pedestrians from both directions were shunted across the street, where a crowd gathered behind the rope. Some twenty city employees, in uniform and out, were on the scene in less than half an hour after the cop had m
s well have you and Bolton together, and this
n his phone and knows nothing of all the excitement, and cares less. If I went in and told him
here in t
hatever about the taxi. When I c
id you c
minutes p
d you co
e quit my job, so if you're determined to s
lling me yo
on't work he
ied all the wrinkles there are, but this
in, that depends on Mr. Bolton's handling of a certain problem, but when I left th
an leave the h
etter than him. She offered to pay me fifty dollars for consultation on how to win a bet she had made, and we sat here to consult. We had been here fifteen or twenty minutes when the prowl car came along and stopped by the taxi, which had been standing there
er seen this
et she wanted to
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come in
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her get out
y up the stoop when
ne get out of the
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's her
sk
through the open door had included the framed picture of the hackie and her name. As
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closed it again. "Daren Wa
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No
xi here when
but I suppose it was because it
d you co
think that
r head. "No. For instance, if somebody drove me here, or nea
ew what "no tri
in advised her, "to t
ld rath
you wanted to consu
. It was a private bet with
know, do I have to tell him about my private af
me connection between your private affairs and his publi
is all this?" Jak
wide open and he was standing on the threshold, his b
let him reply, but he didn't. Apparently he was too flabbergasted at seeing Bolton ac
iver in it. A police car came along and stopped, and a cop found a dead body, female, in the taxi under a piece of canvas. I was there looking in when he removed the canvas. I came back up the stoop to sit with my client. We recessed our conference to watch the proceedings. Officers arrived promptly, including Inspector Darwin, When he got around to it he came and
hy didn't you bring
not my house.
invite you to use it for consultation with your client. Sitting here in
No
you, Mi
me. "I didn't have any," s
minute." He had come on up to the stoop and was at my elbow, focused on Wolf
Ye
Wh
egious, Mr. Darwin
with Miss Nest or what she wa
No
taxi was parked at your do
No
ow Miss Holt
atently, did
ow the taxi
n the circumstance that brought you here, or Miss Holt, would he have sat here with her, supine,
s and bring them down," touched Clara Nest's arm,
e there's no telephone in the front room and you may have occasion t
in the situation. Miss Clara drove that taxi here. A friend of hers named Nelly Graham is one of the ninety-three female h
aid. "Judy le
of a building and went in the building for something, and when she came back there was a dead b
d. "It was under that pan
d consult you and me. I met her on the stoop. She told me a cockeyed tale about a bet she had made with a friend which I'll skip. I said somewhat level-headed. I let her see that I knew she was feeding me soap but kept
"but she didn't. I was going to tel
easted jam. I'll know more about it after she tells me things. The point is, did she kill that woman? If I thought she did I would bow out
ton's client. I would have shoved her off quickly, since that sort of demonstration only ruffles him, but she was
ere. Make it twenty to one. Add to that my observation of her while we sat there on the stoop, and it's thirty to one. Therefore I am keeping the fee she paid me, and I'm-by the way." I reached in my pocke
"I'll pay you more. Of cours
r after you answe
wait: what did yo
." She patt
ain for your offer of hospitality, but Darwin may be ringing th
his is preposterous. Give me
a brow.
your headstrong decision that our long association has ended, but even if it has, your repute is inextricably involved with m
twenty from the pocket where I had put the fee, and a five from my wallet, and handed
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