Dark of the Moon (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sandford

Author:John Sandford [Sandford, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780425224137
Amazon: 0425224139
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2008-09-29T07:00:00+00:00

JUDD’S OFFICE included a small outer waiting room with a secretary’s desk, a side room with a Xerox machine, a printer and a half-dozen file cabinets, and a large inner office with leather chairs, dark-wood paneling, and a new wide-screen television sitting on top of a bar. The newspaper office was on one side, and Judd Jr.’s office on the other; they hadn’t seen either the newspaper editor or Junior when they unlocked Judd Sr.’s office.

Stryker locked the door behind them and Virgil said, “Not too much light. Just the inner office and the file room. I’d just as soon that not everybody in town knows that we’re here.”

“Probably know anyway,” Stryker said, gloomily. He was discouraged by the results of the Schmidt investigation: “Nothing’s coming up, man. What about you? Anything working?”

“The letter this morning implied that Bill Judd Jr. has money problems, and mentioned Florence Mills,” Virgil said. “It supposedly was set up to make ethanol out of corn and switchgrass—and it’s half owned by George Feur.”

“Feur?”

“Yeah. I can’t find out who owns the other half, because that half is owned by a Delaware corporation. We could probably find out next week, but it’s too late today. We’re gonna need some papers, and it’s already two o’clock on the East Coast. I’m thinking that if the Judds are involved with Feur, and…I don’t know. There’s something going on there.”

“Ethanol? Shoot, it could be another goddamn Jerusalem artichoke scam. There’s the same kind of gold-rush thing going on…the people who got killed weren’t only old, they were mostly pretty well-off. Could have been investors in another scam.”

“Yeah. Even the Schmidts. They had half a million in Vanguard.” Virgil thought for a second, and then asked, “Is Larry Jensen still out there?”

“Yeah.”

“Get him to check the Vanguard statements. There should be monthly statements, like with a checking account. See if there’ve been any big withdrawals in the past three years. Not like for a car…bigger than that.”

“I’ll call now.”

While he went to call, Virgil began going through Judd’s files, looking for anything involving Arno Partners or Florence Mills. Stryker came back: “Larry’ll check. What are we looking for?”

“Arno Partners, A-R-N-O, or Florence Mills. If you could crack open his computer, run a search on either name…”

“Why don’t I do the files, you do the computer. You gotta be better at computers than I am…”

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