A Tubby Dubonnet Mystery 06 Lucky Man by Tony Dunbar

Author:Tony Dunbar
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: southern fiction, noir, hard-boiled mystery, humorous mystery, New Orleans, murder mystery, Tony Dunbar, legal thriller, Tubby Dubonnet, mystery series, legal mystery, lawyer mystery
ISBN: 9781625173058
Publisher: booksBnimble
Published: 2013-12-08T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XV

At his office Tubby was waiting for Norella Peruna Finn to show up.

Cherrylynn stuck her head in the door.

“Mr. Boaz called,” she reported. The sullenness of recent days was still in her voice.

“Thank you so much. That’s a very nice dress you’re wearing.” He was trying to induce an improved mood.

“Gracias,” she said, giving him a half smile, “I’ve had it for years.”

“Oh.”

She turned and pranced out.

“My mistake,” he said to her back.

He wondered if Cherrylynn had a boyfriend these days. It had been a while since she had mentioned one. Problems in the romance department might explain her testiness and her tardiness.

He cast aside thoughts of Cherrylynn’s sex life, picked up the phone, and punched in Jason’s number.

“Speak,” the voice at the other end of the line commanded.

“Good morning, Jason, this is Tubby.”

“My man, I’ve got a new idea I want to run by you.” Jason was always full of new ideas. Many were flaky, but the good ones had made him big money. It was how he made his living. He paid Tubby to protect his strange notions with patents.

“I’m all ears.”

“It involves men’s ties. They’re a drag to wear, as I’m sure you know, and they cost fifty bucks apiece. We can avoid all that by painting a picture of a tie directly on the shirt.”

This was not going to be one of the good ones, Tubby feared. Jason supplied a few more details. There might be some potential here. Hell, Tubby knew he was no judge of what would sell and what wouldn’t.

“What say we meet at the Fairgrounds and watch the ponies race a few. You can run your meter.”

“I’m real busy these days, Jason. Couldn’t we get together at my office.”

“Say again?”

“Let’s meet here.”

“Tubby, that’s the first time I heard you say no to the track.”

“Well, you know, you’ve got to buckle down and work sometimes.”

“That’s middle-aged thinking, my boy.”

“Sure, but we’re middle-aged. I saw your old girlfriend yesterday.”

“Which one?” Jason was suspicious.

“Norella.”

“Yeah? Must have been with her new husband. He’s into boats and money and all that stuff.”

“Her late husband, Max Finn. He died.” It crossed Tubby’s mind that Jason might somehow be involved in this mess, but he dismissed the thought as absurd.

“Sweet Mary, that’s a shame. Did she kill him?”

“I don’t think so. Why would you say that?”

“She’s high-strung and flighty, and mean in short spurts.”

“No, I don’t think she killed him. It’s not even clear yet what he died from.”

“She’ll have a new man soon.”

“You think?”

“Norella is a special, beautiful butterfly. She flits from flower to flower. I haven’t see her since she threw a Scotch and soda in my lap at the Red Saloon. I might not see her for another year, but when I do she’ll give me a wicked smile and a kiss. She’ll say she’s been thinking about me all the time.”

“Jason, nobody could forget you.”

“That true, I guess. How about tomorrow at one. As a compromise, let’s eat at the Redfish Grill.”

Tubby said that would be just fine.

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