Death Comes Early (A Hardboiled William R. Cox Thriller) by William R. Cox

Author:William R. Cox [Cox, William R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: corruption, crime action, hard-boiled thrillers, James Ellroy, Charles Willeford, murder, violence
Publisher: Piccadilly
Published: 2022-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Dear Ted:

The way it goes, something is liable to happen to me any day. I got to say, you been damn good to me. I been lousy to you since we was kids and you fought my battles for me and I hated it, not you, but because I was so little I couldn’t fight my own battles. Maybe when I got older then I had to fight my own battles and being little like I am, I fought them my way, which ain’t your way.

But the hell with that. What I am mixed up in, it is more than the horses. It is Pete Cancelli. I got a bad feeling Pete is too tough for me.

It is also Cy Camp. He is not too tough for me, and his wife sure saw the day she was my mouse, but Cy’s money is too much for me. A millionaire is much. Funny, Pete and Cy, they both hire their muscles.

What I want to tell you, if Pete gives you a hard time, is that you should look for the alky. This is a big secret that not even the cops know. Nor the Feds. He has got the rights from Frankie Yarbo and the Syndicate because he found the place, the old Camp Coal Company that even Camp don’t know about, ha, ha! This is a lease deal, very legit. You can figure out the rest for yourself, with what you know. It is very large. If you know about it, you can handle Pete. You can’t muscle Pete, but he can be handled. Cy Camp can’t be handled or muscled, but his wife is a kook, and through her you might get some place, only you wouldn’t, on account of you don’t do things like that. Maybe your pal, that crap artist Jack Ware, could handle it for you. He is strictly for the birds, but kind of tough and mean.

This is all I got to leave you except maybe a tab here and there I forgot to pay. It will take care of Pete if you know what to do. Pete don’t like you, on account of Lila. He has got a funny thing about her, he don’t want her, but he don’t want anybody else to have her and won’t divorce her. He is an oddball. I know him good.

Ted, I’m sorry about a lot of stuff. I had some drinks, as you know, or wouldn’t be able to write this. I’m real sorry ...

Al

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