DIRTY BLOND by Mark Terry

Author:Mark Terry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OROX Books

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DG: When was the last time you were in your apartment?

SB: Last night. You were there.

DG: Let me rephrase. Prior to last night, when was the last time you were in your apartment?

SB: Just to make everyone happy, including the DA, Captain Bains, and my attorney, should I need her, perhaps you should identify the apartment by address.

With a sigh, Gardner read off my address, repeating the question.

SB: I’m a little fuzzy on the specific date, but I think it was Thursday, around two weeks ago. It was in the middle of the Chemist case.

DG: Why were you there?

SB: Sleeping. I do that sometimes. A little bit.

DG: Alone?

SB: That night?

DG: Yes. Two weeks ago.

SB: Yes, alone.

DG: Where were you staying for the last two weeks, when you weren’t in your apartment?

SB: That would be a complicated answer, but the gist of it is, sometimes I was staying at my mother’s house in Schaumburg, sometimes, since I was leading a task for into a mass killer, I was working all night long, sometimes at my desk, sometimes in my car while Orville drove somewhere.

DG: Let’s discuss your mother’s house.

SB: Actually, I’m not finished. I know I spent several nights at my fiancé’s house. And then, he was poisoned by the Chemist and hospitalized, so I spent a night or two at the hospital with him. I’m sure some of the people there would remember.

Gardner checked his notes. Then he leaned back in his chair for a moment and sighed.

He scratched his jaw.

Finally: Where were you at the time the firebomb went off?

“I was at the hospital with Nathan. Then my partner, Orville Benedict, woke me up. Then together we went over to a victim’s apartment on Racine and did a search. That’s where we were when we got the call about the apartment.”

“Jesus Christ,” he said. “Why didn’t you just tell me that in the first place.”

“I was busy.”

“I’ve got five unsolved and then number six was this dead guy in your apartment. I’m chasing my tail and you’re wasting my fricking time.”

“Well, the guy who probably set the bombs in my apartment is a contract killer who goes by the name, at least in some circles, as Ronin.” She explained as much of it as she could without tripping over what she thought might be security issues.

Gardner stared at her. “So who hired this Ronin?”

“That we don’t know. We have a few suspicions, but really, we have no evidence. And besides, in terms of the kid in my apartment, the killer would be Ronin.”

He slapped his hands on the table. “I’m going to ask to have this case transferred to you.”

“Swell,” I said.

He laughed. “O’Keefe, he’ll probably want this same story from you. And he’ll probably be glad to turn it over to you, too.”

“What the hell,” I said. “Want

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