Manner of Death by Stephen White

Author:Stephen White [White, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-08-30T18:39:49+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

On the way out of town to the airport on Friday, I stopped in Spanish Hills to see how Dresden’s work on the house was progressing. The hat he was wearing that day came from a remote spot on the northeast coast of Australia called Hook Island. We’d discussed this particular hat before. He’d dived that area of the Great Barrier Reef once already and had told me at least three times that it was his destination again the week after our job was finished.

“We’re cooking,” he explained, as he showed me the footers and foundation walls for the main-floor addition as well as the foundation for the new garage that was going up on the north side of our house. “As soon as the cement is cured, we’ll have these two framed and trussed in no time.”

The inside of the house had already gone from the demo stage to the reframing stage, and the outlines of the newly designed rooms were taking shape in an array of studs and electrical and plumbing rough-ins. The tradespeople hired by Dresden were typical Boulder subs. The electrician on the project was a huge man with dreadlocks and a Ph.D. in art history, the plumber was a retooled engineer who liked working for himself but dressed as though he were still employed by IBM.

As I did each time we met I inquired of Dresden about any new evidence of our previous intruder.

As he did each time we met he assured me that I had nothing to worry about.

Reassuring clients was one of Dresden’s many innate skills. I’d already decided that he would have made a great nanny.

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