A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780752837482
Google: zJxhPwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0380811189
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Goodreads: 162938
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1992-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Kelly was away from his desk. The man who answered his phone at Brooklyn Homicide said he could try to have him paged, if it was important. I said it was important.

When the phone rang Elaine answered it, said, “Just a minute,” and nodded. I took the phone from her and said hello.

“My dad remembers you,” he said. “Said you were real eager.”

“Well, that was a while ago.”

“So he said. What’s so important they got to beep me in the middle of a meal?”

“I have a question about Leila Alvarez.”

“You got a question. I thought you had something for me.”

“About the surgery she had.”

“ ‘Surgery.’ That what you want to call it?”

“Do you know what he used to sever the breast?”

“Yeah, a fucking guillotine. Where are you coming from with the questions, Scudder?”

“Could he have used a piece of wire? Piano wire, say, used almost like a garrote?”

There was a long pause, and I wondered if I’d pronounced the word incorrectly and he didn’t know what I meant. Then, his voice tight, he said, “What the fuck are you sitting on?”

“I’ve been sitting on it for ten minutes, and I’ve spent five of them waiting for you to call back.”

“God damn it, what have you got, mister?”

“Alvarez wasn’t their only victim.”

“So you said. Also Gotteskind. I read the file and I think you’re right, but where did you get piano wire with Gottes-kind?”

“There’s another victim,” I said. “Raped, tortured, a breast severed. The difference is she’s alive. I figured you’d want to talk to her.”

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