Poodle Springs by Robert B. Parker

Author:Robert B. Parker [Parker, Robert B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780425239346
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1989-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

You’re lonely and I’m your pal.

“Sure, I know Larry. Everybody knows Larry. The man with the camera. The man with the pictures.”

She finished her wine. Willie poured some more. He was not a boy to miss the main chance, old Willie. She needed another cigarette. I took one out of her pack on the bar and lit it and handed it to her. Maybe I wouldn’t have made a good manservant. Maybe I would have made a good gigolo. Maybe I didn’t want to think about that. Maybe that hit too close to home.

“I used to pose for Larry, you know.”

“I can believe that,” I said.

Val nodded and stared at me. “Wasn’t that long ago I still looked good with my clothes off.”

“I can believe that too,” I said.

“Well, I did.”

“Larry usually take women’s pictures with their clothes off?”

“Sure,” Val said. “Larry looked at more nudes than my gynecologist.” She was pleased as hell to have said that and laughed and wheezed until she got cough-ing and I had to beat her on the back to get her to stop.

“Wise old Dr. Larry,” she gasped. “Used to peddle the stuff around the boulevard when it was harder to get. Now he wholesales it, I guess. I don’t know. Who cares about dirty pictures anymore. You know?”

“Get ‘em on any newsstand,” I said. “Did he do any legit photography? Fashion stuff?” Val repressed a belch, touched her fingertips to her lips automatically.

‘”Scuse me,” she said brightly. The jukebox moaned out another sad country ballad. The old couple in the booth got up and stumbled out, arms around each other’s waist, her left hand in his back pocket, her head on his shoulder. Val was still smiling at me.

“Did he ever do fashion stuff?” I said.

“Who?”

“Larry.”

“Oh, yeah, fashion stuff.” She paused a long time. I waited. Time is different for drunks.

“Nooo,” Val said. “He never did none. He said he did, but I never saw any or knew about anybody he photographed.”

She had trouble with photographed.

“Where’d Lola live?” I said.

“Lola?”.

“Yeah.”

“What about her?”

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