Little Black Dress by Loren D. Estleman

Author:Loren D. Estleman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

Wild Bill was napping in his chair on the back deck when his telephone rang. He went inside and picked up the receiver just before the machine kicked in. He listened, then said, “What changed your mind?”

“My horoscope,” Grinnell’s voice said. “What time Saturday?”

“They close at nine. Just before then.”

The receiver clicked. Wild Bill worked the plunger, then pecked out a number.

“’Sup?” asked Mark Twain, when he recognized the voice.

Wild Bill said shit under his breath. Mark only talked like a Budweiser commercial when he was on parrot tranquilizers. “Can you talk?”

“Sure. I just can’t walk.” He giggled.

“Man, I need you lucid.”

There was a rustle on the other end; Mark sitting up, running his fingers through his dreads. “Okay, what?”

They made arrangements in a series of one-word sentences only they understood. When Wild Bill was sure Mark was sober enough not to forget them five minutes after they finished, he hung up, got the Beretta shotgun down from its perch atop one of the big timbers that held up the roof over the living room, broke it down, and coated every surface with graphite. When he put it back together and worked the pump, it slid as smoothly as foreskin.

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