Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott

Author:Megan Abbott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Adventure, Historical
ISBN: 9781439101056
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

JOE LANIGAN was leaning over her and his hand was open and was he going to slap her?

The crack came at her and the burning on her face something fierce.

“Don’t hit me, Joe,” she murmured. “How’d you get here, Joe?”

“You telephoned me, Marion,” he was saying, and he stood back up straight. He still had his hat on, that one with the brim, he said the brim was felted under water by hand, but that couldn’t be, could it, and his linen suit was so white, like vanilla ice cream.

Her hand was in her lap, but it was not her hand but the hand of a carnival clown, big and spongy and not hers at all. And the red from it was everywhere.

“I did? I telephoned you, Joe?” Then she remembered wrapping Louise’s housecoat around herself and running down the street to the soda fountain, which was closed. The old man mopping the floor saw her and let her in. “I burned myself,” she had said, “but my husband is a doctor.” The man shrugged and kept mopping.

She went in the booth and whispered, “Mr. Lanigan, it’s a dreadful thing. Her face is gone. It’s just gone and my hand is hot.”

“Mrs. Seeley, what…”

“Mr. Lanigan, Louise is lying still but what of Ginny and that elfin face crushed like a cigarette?”

“Marion, where are you?”

“I’m in hell, Mr. Lanigan. You never told me how it felt. You should have, so I’d’ve known.”

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