10-Movie by Parnell Hall

Author:Parnell Hall
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Undefined
ISBN: 9781936441044
Publisher: Parn ell Hall
Published: 2010-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

22.

“UNBELIEVABLE!”

“Calm down.”

“Absolutely unbelievable!”

“Please stop shouting.”

“I’m not shouting.”

“You’re talking very loud. You want Tommie to get upset?”

“Alice—”

“Shhh.”

“Don’t shhh me!”

“Lower your voice.”

“Don’t you understand, Alice? He’s doing it again!”

The he was Sergeant Clark. What he was doing again was making a mistake in a murder investigation.

If I had been slightly more rational, I wouldn’t have been so upset about Alice not understanding that. After all, this was all news to her. Ten minutes ago, she didn’t even know there’d been a murder. There was no pay phone near the construction site, so I hadn’t been able to call her. And she hadn’t watched the evening news. So first she had to relate to the fact the boom man had been killed, before she could comprehend the fact that the investigation of it was being botched.

It was her inability to assimilate this at lightning speed that was causing me to raise my voice. Which I admit was totally unfair. But I couldn’t help it. The son of a bitch was doing it again.

“All right, slow down,” Alice said. “Try to tell me again. So far all I know is there’s been a murder and the officer in charge is Sergeant Clark. I understand why that’s enough to set you off, but it doesn’t tell me any of the specifics in the case. What is he doing again? And why is it tying you up in knots so bad you can’t talk about it?”

What Sergeant Clark was doing again was, as I said, making a mistake in a murder case. What made it so infuriating was it was the same mistake he’d made in the first murder case. Remember how I said he’d solved the Rosenberg and Stone case, even though he’d made a faulty assumption? Well, it was the same damn faulty assumption. In the Rosenberg and Stone murders, he’d taken a homicide that had happened a year before and lumped it in with the group. And every time we wound up discussing the crimes, he kept harking back to that one. Which was enough to drive me nuts, since I knew for a fact it had nothing to do with it.

I knew that because, one, I’d solved the case, two, the murderer had been apprehended and was in jail, and, three, the only thing that linked that murder to the Rosenberg and Stone crimes was the fact the victim was apparently one of Richard Rosenberg’s clients.

I use the word apparently for good reason. The victim was not one of Richard’s Rosenberg’s clients. He only appeared to be because I made it look like he was, in order to get me out of a jam. The man in question had actually no connection with Rosenberg and Stone whatsoever.

Of course, I couldn’t tell Sergeant Clark that. All I could do was point out the absurdity of lumping him in with the others. To absolutely no avail. The man persisted, right up until the solving of the case, in considering the death of the man in question as a factor.

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