37 Lightning by Ed McBain

Author:Ed McBain
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Police Procedural, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9781612181752
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2011-12-24T05:00:00+00:00

The parking garage was two blocks from the restaurant. A sign on the wall advised any interested motorist of the exorbitant fees charged for parking a car here in the heart of the city, and promised that if the car was not delivered within five minutes from the time the claim check was stamped, there would be no charge at all. His claim check had been stamped seven minutes ago. He could hear the shriek of rubber as an attendant better suited for competition in the Grand Prix drove an automobile down around the hairpin turns of the garage ramp, hoping to beat the time limit, and possibly to save his job. He wondered if they’d really let him get away without paying. He was not about to argue over two or three minutes. He did not want anything to delay him tonight.

“You really don’t have to drive me back to the dorm, you know,” Darcy said. “I could take a cab, really.”

“My pleasure,” he said.

“Or the subway,” she said.

“The subways are dangerous,” he said.

“I ride them all the time.”

“You shouldn’t.”

His car came into sight around the last curve in the ramp. The driver, a Puerto Rican in his fifties, got out of the car and said, “Ri’ on d’button. Fi’minutes.”

He did not contradict the driver. He gave him a fifty-cent tip, held the door open for Darcy, closed it behind her, and then went around to the driver’s side. The car was a fifteen-year-old Mercedes-Benz 280 SL. He had bought it when the money was still pouring in. The media ads, the television commercials. That was then. This was now.

“Fasten your seat belt,” he told her.

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