Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale

Author:Joe R. Lansdale [Lansdale, Joe R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9782070498543
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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We sat out in the parking lot and looked at what Pierre had given us.

Leonard said, “Hope that guy ain’t gay. He could give our whole sexual orientation a bad name.”

“Let me tell you,” I said. “He’s heterosexual, he’s not doing us any good either.”

“What kind of fucking accent was that?” Leonard asked. “It changed from one word to the next.”

“It was a bullshit accent is what it was. Closest Pierre’s been to France, or anything French, is a croissant. Maybe he’s been to Paris, Texas.”

“I hear that,” Leonard said. “Don’t you know that fucker is worn out at the end of the day. Trying to remember what spin he’s been putting on particular words. Hell, he made me tired just to listen to him. What are the names he wrote down?”

“Charles Arthur. Bill Cunningham.”

“Whoa,” Leonard said. “Charles Arthur. You know who that is, don’t you?”

“No.”

“King Arthur, the chili king. King Arthur Chili, like it said on the pad in the Jiffy bag.”

“I know who King Arthur is,” I said. “I just didn’t know him as Charles Arthur.”

“The pad in the Jiffy bag, then the name coming up at Antone’s, that’s certainly coincidental.”

“There’s lots of those pads,” I said. “They give them out free all over town. Raul cut Arthur’s hair, probably picked up a notebook while he was there. King Arthur could have given it to him.”

“With coded numbers written on it?”

“You got a point there,” I said. “But Raul could have brought the book home and Horse Dick could have written down the coded numbers for some reason. It could have been something he was working on. That makes more sense to me, actually.”

“Maybe,” Leonard said. “And still, Raul could have picked it up while cutting Arthur’s hair. Sneaked it.”

“I have to ask the same question. Why?”

“I don’t know. Why don’t we drive out to the plant, see if we can find King Arthur?”

“Big shot like him,” I said. “I bet he’s never there.”

“Yeah, but we got to start somewhere,” Leonard said. “Or how else we gonna get in our annoyance quota.”

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