Terror Comes Creeping by Carter Brown

Author:Carter Brown [Brown, Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780451017505
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1959-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

pressed against the back of my neck again. "Move it, Boyd, I'm losing sleep!"

I did as I was told—started the motor and swung the car in a tight U-turn, then stopped facing the gates. The rear door slammed and a split-second later, Tolvar stood beside the driving window, the gun pomted at my face.

"Thanks for the ride, pal," he said. "It sure cured my insomnia."

"So what do I do now—sing you a lullaby?" I asked.

"You do whatever you want, pal," he said genially. "Drive to New York—California for all I give a damn."

"I just drive away," I repeated. "All that jazz about when you got to go?"

"Strictly for laughs," he said. "Like that gag of yours about a body being buried here. You got a great imagination, Boyd, you should've been a pimp!"

"Thanks," I said.

"Well—beat it!" he said impatiently. "You figure I want to stay here all night?"

"I'm going," I said. "I just want to light a cigarette first."

"Can't you drive one-handed any more?"

"Five seconds," I said patiently.

I took the pack out of my pocket slowly, the cigarette out of the pack even more slowly. Tolvar was irritating me if he figured I was so dumb I couldn't see what was coming.

They'd waited until Sylvia had got inside the house and Tolvar had taken me joy-riding. Then they dug the body out of the pigpen, and when we came back, one of them put it into the trunk of the car. So now as I drove away, Tolvar would shoot carefully and kill me. He'd rather let me drive away first because there was less to go wrong. Then they'd call the cops and say they heard a prowler, came out and saw me driving away—shot and accidently killed me.

It would all be there for the cops—^the freshly dug pigpen, the body in the trunk. I'd be the guy who came

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