Carioca Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Author:Gregory McDonald [McDonald, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307516787
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1984-05-06T23:00:00+00:00

“Do you see anything amiss?” Teo asked.

While the desk clerk stood at the door of Suite 912, jangling the key in his hand, Teo and Fletch had searched through the living room, bedroom, bathroom, terrace as well as they could.

“Not a damned thing,” Fletch answered. “Except that Joan Collins Stanwyk isn’t here.”

The rooms were freshly made up, the bathroom undisturbed, the bed not slept in. Going through the drawers, closets, even going through the medicine chest and suitcases, and other immediately conceivable hiding places, Fletch had found no money, no jewelry.

“One thing is significant, Teo,” Fletch said. “Yesterday morning, Joan was wearing a tan slacks suit and a silk shirt. I cannot find the slacks suit and the shirt here in the suite.”

“She could have sent them to the hotel cleaners. You don’t know what other clothes she had.”

“Not likely. She wanted to move out of this hotel as soon as I brought money.”

“Then it is likely she disappeared somewhere between The Hotel Yellow Parrot and here.”

“Yes.”

Standing back on his heels at the door, the desk clerk rattled the key against its chain.

“What do we do now?” Teo asked. “You’re the investigative reporter, newly retired.”

“Check the hospitals, I guess.”

Teo thought a short moment. “There is really only one hospital where they would have brought anyone sick or injured between The Yellow Parrot and here. We can check that one out.”

Fletch said, “Let’s do so.”

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