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gave the operator Jim Hageville s number and was incredulous when it finally
connected and I heard my friend s voice.
I hate to get melodramatic but where have you been in my hour of need?
I tried to call you back as soon as I got your message. Drew s been phoning
you over there, too, but
I doubt he ll ever try again. Mike answered the last time he called and he
probably thinks I m holed up with another man. Joanie, you have to help me
with this one. Can you remember exactly when it was that Drew told you that he
wanted to meet me?
Why are you mixing him up in this woman s murder case, Alex? You re just
overreacting. You ve got to get over what you went through with Jed and his
kind of
One has nothing to do with the other. It s a bit freaky that Drew tells you
he wants to meet me and a week later I find out that the doctor whose murder
I m working on was the surgeon holding the knife when Carla Renaud went out of
the picture. How did the whole thing start? That s what I want to know.
There were a few seconds of silence as Joan stretched for an answer. I was
thinking like an interrogator now rather than a friend and it hurt my case not
to be able to eyeball her and gauge her demeanor as she tried to answer me.
Joanie?
I m not stalling. I m looking in my date book. Remember the AIDS benefit at
the Temple of Dendur in early March? Jim and I were just leaving when you
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arrived you were standing right in front of that sarcophagus with the
twenty-five-hundred-year-old mummy on loan from the British Museum
Which one of us looked better?
Personally,I voted for the mummy, but that s when Drew told Jim he knew who
you were and wanted a chance to be introduced. We were on our way out so I
told him to give us a call with some dates and I d put it together at a dinner
party.
And when did he call you? Got that in your little black book, too?
A longer pause.
He didn t call you until after he saw the newspaper articles about my
assignment to Gemma Dogen s case? Right? Like a day or two before the dinner
party that you d already set up. And you just added an extra chair.
What s the big deal? I mean, I certainly didn t know anything about this,
Alex. But I can t blame the man for being curious about the doctor who had
such a profound effect on his personal life. I ve talked to him plenty since
then and he s really crazy about you.
Well, it s extremely weird to be in the middle of a love triangle with a guy
who s probably trying to channel messages to his late wife through the
prosecutor who s handling the murder of the woman
Cut it out. I ve got to go, the baby s crying and
You don t have a baby.
Well, it works for Nina whenever you re makingher crazy with your phone
calls. Maybe I ll borrow one til you pass through this phase.
I m sorry.
Look, you ve only dated the guy a couple of times. Jim s known him forever.
Get through with this case and give Drew a chance.
I was lying down on my side now, with my head propped up on one elbow,
holding the phone to my right ear. We made small talk for a couple of minutes
before I wormed my way back to the purpose of my call. Mike thinks this is a
bit far out, but do you well, does Jim think that Drew harbored enough of a
grudge against Dr. Dogen that he might have I don t mean that he did anything
violent himself, but that he would have hired someone to
Joan was shouting at me across the Atlantic. Do you remember what you used
to tell me you did your first year in the D.A. s Office, when you were
assigned to that bureau where all the nuts called in with their complaints?
Whenever you got stuck on the phone with a pain in the neck who wouldn t let
you go, you used to reach a point where you d say, Madam, I think we re about
to be disconnected. Keep talking like this, Miss Cooper, and you will be
permanently disconnected.
I could hear Joan take a deep breath.
Listen to Mike, she said. He s got wonderful instincts about this kind of
thing. I ll be back up in New York on Tuesday, then you and I can get together
for a quiet dinner. Call me here on Sunday after you ve unpacked and settled
in.
Mike had shaved and showered during my call and emerged from the bathroom
dressed in a dark blue suit. He was almost ready to go downstairs for the
cocktail hour as he finished knotting and straightening his tie.
My conversation with Joan had put things in perspective and cheered me up as
my exchanges with her usually did. There was no reason to write Drew off
altogether, especially since I wouldn t have much time for socializing as the
pace of our investigation picked up. I might as well enjoy my free hours now
and figure out how I felt about him when this case was behind me. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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gave the operator Jim Hageville s number and was incredulous when it finally
connected and I heard my friend s voice.
I hate to get melodramatic but where have you been in my hour of need?
I tried to call you back as soon as I got your message. Drew s been phoning
you over there, too, but
I doubt he ll ever try again. Mike answered the last time he called and he
probably thinks I m holed up with another man. Joanie, you have to help me
with this one. Can you remember exactly when it was that Drew told you that he
wanted to meet me?
Why are you mixing him up in this woman s murder case, Alex? You re just
overreacting. You ve got to get over what you went through with Jed and his
kind of
One has nothing to do with the other. It s a bit freaky that Drew tells you
he wants to meet me and a week later I find out that the doctor whose murder
I m working on was the surgeon holding the knife when Carla Renaud went out of
the picture. How did the whole thing start? That s what I want to know.
There were a few seconds of silence as Joan stretched for an answer. I was
thinking like an interrogator now rather than a friend and it hurt my case not
to be able to eyeball her and gauge her demeanor as she tried to answer me.
Joanie?
I m not stalling. I m looking in my date book. Remember the AIDS benefit at
the Temple of Dendur in early March? Jim and I were just leaving when you
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arrived you were standing right in front of that sarcophagus with the
twenty-five-hundred-year-old mummy on loan from the British Museum
Which one of us looked better?
Personally,I voted for the mummy, but that s when Drew told Jim he knew who
you were and wanted a chance to be introduced. We were on our way out so I
told him to give us a call with some dates and I d put it together at a dinner
party.
And when did he call you? Got that in your little black book, too?
A longer pause.
He didn t call you until after he saw the newspaper articles about my
assignment to Gemma Dogen s case? Right? Like a day or two before the dinner
party that you d already set up. And you just added an extra chair.
What s the big deal? I mean, I certainly didn t know anything about this,
Alex. But I can t blame the man for being curious about the doctor who had
such a profound effect on his personal life. I ve talked to him plenty since
then and he s really crazy about you.
Well, it s extremely weird to be in the middle of a love triangle with a guy
who s probably trying to channel messages to his late wife through the
prosecutor who s handling the murder of the woman
Cut it out. I ve got to go, the baby s crying and
You don t have a baby.
Well, it works for Nina whenever you re makingher crazy with your phone
calls. Maybe I ll borrow one til you pass through this phase.
I m sorry.
Look, you ve only dated the guy a couple of times. Jim s known him forever.
Get through with this case and give Drew a chance.
I was lying down on my side now, with my head propped up on one elbow,
holding the phone to my right ear. We made small talk for a couple of minutes
before I wormed my way back to the purpose of my call. Mike thinks this is a
bit far out, but do you well, does Jim think that Drew harbored enough of a
grudge against Dr. Dogen that he might have I don t mean that he did anything
violent himself, but that he would have hired someone to
Joan was shouting at me across the Atlantic. Do you remember what you used
to tell me you did your first year in the D.A. s Office, when you were
assigned to that bureau where all the nuts called in with their complaints?
Whenever you got stuck on the phone with a pain in the neck who wouldn t let
you go, you used to reach a point where you d say, Madam, I think we re about
to be disconnected. Keep talking like this, Miss Cooper, and you will be
permanently disconnected.
I could hear Joan take a deep breath.
Listen to Mike, she said. He s got wonderful instincts about this kind of
thing. I ll be back up in New York on Tuesday, then you and I can get together
for a quiet dinner. Call me here on Sunday after you ve unpacked and settled
in.
Mike had shaved and showered during my call and emerged from the bathroom
dressed in a dark blue suit. He was almost ready to go downstairs for the
cocktail hour as he finished knotting and straightening his tie.
My conversation with Joan had put things in perspective and cheered me up as
my exchanges with her usually did. There was no reason to write Drew off
altogether, especially since I wouldn t have much time for socializing as the
pace of our investigation picked up. I might as well enjoy my free hours now
and figure out how I felt about him when this case was behind me. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]