A Slepyng Hound to Wake by Vincent McCaffrey

Author:Vincent McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mysteries & Thrillers, novel
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2011-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

“Huffy and Lu?”

“Humphrey and Luella.”

“They don’t make names like that anymore.”

“No, they don’t.”

“People don’t run naked in the fields anymore, either.”

“No, they don’t …”

“It’s too bad …”

“Yes …”

Henry climbed the steps past where she sat.

“Take some tomatoes,” she said. “I can’t eat them all.”

He thanked her and took two.

“A woman was here to see you earlier,” she said, half turning to look up at him on the porch.

“Who?”

“She wouldn’t leave her name. I asked. Thin. Fairly tall. Very blonde. Blue eyes. Very nicely dressed.”

“Sounds like Sharon. The woman whose husband wrote Hannibal’s Dance.”

“Yes! It was her, I’ll bet it was. Yes.”

It was odd that she should come here, Henry thought.

“Thanks.” He started to move again.

“And your phone has been ringing all afternoon.”

That could be Della, of course, but a lot of people were getting his number these days. He was going to have to change the number soon.

“And there’s a letter. On the table in the hall. … You get so few letters. Almost no junk mail. Why is that?”

“It all goes to the post office box. No one has my home address.” Almost no one, he had thought.

She shook her head and squinted at him, as if studying something mysterious.

“You know, you are very old-fashioned. You have a computer, but, beyond that, you seem to live in another age. … It’s the books, isn’t it? The books. They’re part of an age gone by, now.”

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