Sidewalk Saint by Phillip DePoy

Author:Phillip DePoy [Phillip DePoy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2019-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

Dr Adam Bainbridge made a lot of money selling his cancer cure. That’s the first thing I found out. He had nearly two million dollars in the bank when he was killed. No heirs, no will. The second thing I found out was that the cancer cure was a repackaged patent medicine from the nineteenth century, Dr Goodheart’s Brilliant Curative. It was a mixture of carbonated water, cane sugar, and Cannabis Indica, weed with a high level of THC. Which was why patients thought they were getting better. They felt better. Right up until the time they died. Dr Bainbridge was, as it turned out, a descendant of Amelia Drake, the inventor of the Brilliant Curative. Right after that I found out that his medical degree was as worthless as his medicine. Guttenberg University of Stuttgart didn’t exist. Gave me a lot of faith in the medical establishment. Guy could make up a degree, fake a medicine, kill a bunch of people, and make a couple million dollars. God bless America. And the fact that I could find all that out from just a couple hours’ worth of phone calls and a little library research only reinforced my disdain for the establishment. Why hadn’t anybody else bothered to check on the guy the way I had? I ended up agreeing with Maggie Redhawk that Roan deserved a medal, not jail time, for killing the guy.

My next step was a mystery even to me. No idea why I decided I had to go to Cross City Correctional to see what I could see about Roan’s time there. And about his escape from the place. Sometimes you had to follow a hunch. And I had a fairly insistent one about Roan’s incarceration.

My assumption had been that he busted out to be with his kid. But that idea had come mostly from Bobby, the fake Roan. And he’d only given that impression because he wanted to find Etta and learn her secret.

What if, no matter what Etta thought, Roan was out for other reasons? Like, for example, revenge on the guys that put him in Cross City in the first place. There was a place in my old neighborhood that only played old movies. I always liked The Count of Monte Cristo. There was a guy who earned his revenge. What if that was Roan?

And while I was at it, I decided to pay a visit to my new friend Elvin in Lake City. I was curious to know how the Lamberts got their claws on Etta; what their connections were. They’d tried to give me the impression that they were innocents afraid of the bad men, but they certainly did their best to run over Mordecai when they had the chance. Like they knew who he was, and what kind of trouble they were in.

In short, I was going to have to drive to Lake City again.

The T-Bird was parked by the docks. The sun had set, and the moon was up. I realized I had to wait until morning.

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