09-Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell

Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Women Sleuths, Fiction, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, General
ISBN: 9780425170786
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1999-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

'So she took it from your bedroom?'

'From a leather box. She must have.'

'Are you aware of anything else missing from the house?' I then asked.

'One gun from my collection is unaccounted for. ATF recovered all the rest. Of

course, they're ruined.'

He was getting more depressed.

'What kind of gun?'

'A Calico.'

'I hope that's not out on the street somewhere,' I said with feeling.

A Calico was an especially nasty submachine gun that looked rather much like

an Uzi with a large cylinder attached to the top of it. It was nine-millimeter and

capable of firing as many as a hundred rounds.

'You need to report all this to the police, to ATF,' I told him.

'Some of it I already have.'

'Not some. All of it, Kenneth.'

'I understand,' he said. 'And I will. But I want to know if it's her, Dr Scarpetta.

Please understand that I don't care about much else at the moment. I will confess

to you that I have called her condo. Neither of her roommates have seen her for

over a week. Last she spent the night in her place was the Friday night before the

fire, the day before it, in other words. The young lady I talked to said Claire

seemed distracted and depressed when they ran into each other in the kitchen.

She made no mention of going out of town.'

'I see that you are quite an investigator,' I said.

'Wouldn't you be if you were me?' he asked.

'Yes.'

Our eyes met and I read his pain. Tiny beads of sweat followed the line of his

hair, and he talked as if his mouth were dry.

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