51 Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain

Author:Ed McBain
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Criticism/Analysis
ISBN: 9780743443791
Publisher: Orion Paperbacks
Published: 2001-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

“I’m amazed we didn’t meet there,” he said. “In Singapore. We probably passed each other all the time on Robinson Road.”

“Yes,” she said. “We probably did.”

Staring at each other across the desk where the genuine bills were stacked to one side, and Struthers’ lone C-note was sitting in front of her.

“I started as a bank messenger,” Antonia said. “Worked my way up to teller and then assistant manager, which was when Henry Loo showed me a hundred-dollar bill soreal -looking I thought old Ben Franklin would any minute go fly a kite off it!”

Antonia laughed at her own witticism.

“But it was as queer as monkey soup,” she said, on a comic roll. “A lot of these C-series hundreds were coming through at the time, all of them printed in Teheran on high-tech intaglio presses.”

“Whatkind of presses?” Carella asked.

“Intaglio,” she said.

“What’s intaglio?” Meyer asked.

“An embossing technique that uses a very thick gummy ink.”

“Is that what intaglio means?” Parker asked Carella. “Thick and gummy?”

“How should I know what intaglio means?” Carella said.

“Maybe it means embossing technique,” Meyer suggested.

“I thought you were supposed to be Italian,” Parker said, and shrugged.

“Intaglio produces a three-dimensional effect you can’t get with any other printing technique,” Antonia said. “Whatever the engraver designs, intaglio gives youexactly.”

“And you say these presses exist inTeheran?” Parker asked. He was thinkingTeheran? Where they wear baggy pants and turbans?

“Yes,” Antonia said. “Identical to the ones used by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.”

“Bureau of Engraving presses inTeheran?” Meyer said. He was thinkingTeheran?Where they shoot guns in the air and burn American flags?

“Oh yes,” Antonia said.

“Let me get this straight,” Carella said. “You’re saying …”

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