Death at Tammany Hall by Charles O'Brien

Author:Charles O'Brien [O'Brien, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

After supper, Pamela returned to the Irving Place office and reported to Prescott. As she spoke, he nodded with approval. At her conclusion, he reached into a cabinet for a bottle of whiskey and offered a shot to her. She declined. Then he poured one for himself and saluted her.

As he sipped from the glass, he said apologetically, “I’m sorry, Pamela, the burden of the investigation will increasingly fall on you. Harry must spend more time with Theresa and her son and bring the Sullivan family through its crisis. I also need his help in a complicated divorce case that I’ve just undertaken—frankly for the money. A Fifth Avenue matron wants me to win a large financial settlement from her philandering, wealthy husband. My commission will fund Harry’s exoneration and replenish the firm’s pro bono fund.”

She waved away his concern. “I’m pleased that you trust me with this investigation, Jeremiah. It’s what I really want to do. The key to Harry’s exoneration lies in the Palermo killing seven years ago. A crucial piece of evidence has thus far eluded us, not to mention the NYPD.”

Prescott cocked his head at a skeptical angle. “And what might that be?”

“A missing witness whom we know only by his initials, H. C., the passenger who left his shiny black portfolio in Palermo’s cab. According to the cabdriver’s landlady, he had found evidence in the portfolio that was very damaging to someone at Tammany Hall. When Palermo tried to extort a large payment for that evidence, he was killed. Mr. H. C. probably knew the significance of that evidence as well as the person it compromised. In sum, he’s likely the key to our investigation.”

Prescott nodded thoughtfully. “That’s a reasonable conjecture. How do you propose to find H. C.?”

“Tomorrow, I’ll speak to Fred Grant and Francis Dodd and hope they might point me in the right direction.”

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