Deadly Dreams (2009) by Banis Victor J

Author:Banis, Victor J [J, Banis, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-26T18:06:17+00:00

We dont know that yet, Bryce said.

Still, assuming

surely someone didnt carry her through the gallery. Is there another entrance? Tom asked.

Yes, Wetzel, bringing up the rear, answered. Theres stairs to an outside door, opens into the alley behind.

They paused at the top of the stairs, just inside the apartment. Its cold in here, Stanley said. He looked at a thermostat on the wall. No wonder. The heats turned off. He started to turn it on, but Bryce said, shortly, No, leave it alone.

She liked it cold, Wetzel said. She said it was like when she was a kid, she was always cold.

Not last night, Tom said. They all looked at him. He looked embarrassed and shrugged. The apartment, I mean. It was warmer when we came in last night. Lots warmer.

Ill bet, Carlson said, and smirked.

Wetzel ignored the exchange. Somethings different, he said, looking past the policemen with a puzzled expression. The rooms much larger. He looked at an open archway in the far wall, and gasped.

That wasnt there before, he said.

What wasnt here? Bryce asked.

That room. That whole part of the apartment. He looked around, puzzled, and pointed a finger at a huge mirror propped against the wall beside the arch. That was there, where that opening is.

Hes right. The mirror was there last night, Tom said. Across the opening. Like, to hide that other room. I didnt even know there was a room there.

Neither did I, Wetzel said, still puzzling.

Bryce led the way across to the open doorway. A separate apartment lay beyond; small, only one room with a bathroom and a Pullman kitchen, and sparsely furnished. Unlike the room that had served as Daniella Benthams sitting room, there was no modernistic chic here, just a simple single bed with a cheap cotton coverlet, a wooden table with an unpainted chair, a gooseneck lamp on the table. Everything strictly functional.

Only the draperies covering the two windows, heavy brocade, spoke of any luxury, but Tom suspected their purpose was rather to block any light from escaping, and the single gooseneck lamp wouldnt have cast much light to begin with.

He went to the window and pulled one of the draperies back. The window looked out on an alley behind. Passersby would have been rare; this wasnt a part of town where pedestrians strolled. Even had somebody walked by out there, and even had he looked up at the second story windows, the draperies would have kept the windows dark.

He turned to Wetzel. How long have you been manager?

I came on board about a month ago. I was up here, in her apartment. This is where she interviewed me. But this part of the apartment must have already been blocked off the first time I saw it. I never knew anything about it.

So, it was done sometime before you were hired.

Yes, it must have been. But Eve lived here, I think, for the better part of a year, she

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