Night Fall (jc-4) by Nelson DeMille

Author:Nelson DeMille [DeMille, Nelson]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: det_political

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Out on Broadway, I went to a pay phone and called Dom Fanelli’s cell phone.

He answered, and I asked, “Can you talk?”

“I gotta get to a double homicide on West 35th, but for you, I’ve got time. What’s up?”

I never know when this guy is jerking me around, and he’d have the same complaint about me. I said, “I need you to find three people.”

“I’ll find four for you.”

“First person, female, last name Scarangello, first name Roxanne. That’s S-C-A-”

“Hey, I’ve got four cousins named Roxanne Scarangello. What do you got on her?”

“College grad, maybe grad school, UPenn or Penn State-”

“What’s the difference?”

“How the fuck do I know? Just listen. Late twenties, came from the Philly area, and may still be down there. Born June, no date, no year.”

“That’s it?”

There was no reason to tell him about her summer employment, which would send him to the Bayview Hotel, which I didn’t want. I said, “That’s it. Check the universities first.”

“Duh. You think?”

“Second person, male, last name Brock.” I spelled it. “First name Christopher. He’d be about thirty-five. No DOB. Works or worked in the hotel industry. Last known address about five years ago was Long Island.”

“That’s not much.”

“He had a tattoo of a mouse peeking out of his asshole.”

“Oh,that Christopher Brock.”

“Third person, female, last name Gonzalez Perez, first name Lucita. I don’t have a spelling. Hispanic, obviously, country of origin El Salvador, immigration status unknown, age about twenty-three or — four, worked in the hotel industry.” I added, “You’re not going to have much luck with that one. Concentrate on the first two.”

“Okay. What’s this all about?”

“I can’t say, Dom.”

“Can I guess?”

I didn’t reply.

Fanelli said, “So, I called Harry Muller, just to say hello and how do you like working for the Feds. And we get around to John Corey, and he says you’ve been acting strange. And I say, ‘What’s so strange about Corey acting strange?’ And he says you’ve been AWOL the last few days, and he’s passing on verbal messages to your wife. Even stranger, you bought two kielbasa sandwiches for you and him, and you didn’t eat yours. Then he calls me this morning and says Stein spoke to you in his office, and now you’re AWOL again, and he’s waiting for a toasted muffin. So-”

“Don’t you have to get to a double homicide?”

“Nah. They’re not going anywhere. So, from all this, I conclude that you’re poking your nose into TWA 800.”

I was a little taken aback, but replied coolly, “How could you conclude that?”

“Easy. I just put it all together.”

“Putwhat together?”

“Oh, and you asked Muller if he worked the TWA case, and you told him you went to the memorial service, and I know Kate worked the case, and so did Marie Gubitosi. And now you want a make on a guy named Brock who lived on Long Island five years ago. Coincidence? I think not. I’m seeing a pattern here, John.”

Sometimes I forget that the Blue Network works both ways, and I forget that Dom Fanelli is a smart cop.

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