Stranger Than Truth by Vera Caspary

Author:Vera Caspary [Caspary, Vera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Crime
ISBN: 9781504029032
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

POETESS FOUND DEAD

Lola Manfred’s Body Found in

Greenwich Village Apartment

Suicide, Police Theory

I pushed my plate away. The odor of the fried potatoes sickened me. The waitress hurried across the tiled floor, but I had already grabbed my hat and overcoat. I motioned toward the table where I had left two dollar bills beside the plate. The waitress stared after me through the plate-glass window.

I started walking north, thinking of Lola and what she had said about her autobiography. Sand Against the Wind was to have the title because Lola had mocked at everything. She had to be an exhibitionist, she explained, because she had become too lazy to write poetry. There had been more to it than that, I thought. Something besides laziness had paralyzed her talent.

At Thirty-fourth Street I went into a cigar store and waited in line until the phone booth was empty. Fortunately Riordan’s home phone number was in the little book I carry in my pocket.

“This is Ansell,” I said and waited for the name to register. “Ansell of Truth and Crime Magazine.”

“I know. In trouble, Ansell?”

“Lola Manfred didn’t commit suicide. I’d bet my last dollar on it.”

“Who’s Lola Manfred?”

“Haven’t you seen the papers? Poetess discovered in Greenwich Village studio apartment. They say it’s suicide, but I have a hunch. Lola Manfred knew who killed Warren G. Wilson…”

“Just a minute,” Riordan said. He must have put his hand over the mouthpiece and talked to someone else. Then he said, “Meet me at Headquarters. It’ll take me about twenty minutes. I’ve got to get dressed.”

As I hung up I thought I heard a woman’s voice protesting.

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