Who Murdered Garson Talmadge by David Bishop

Author:David Bishop
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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ISBN: 9781937387839
Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC
Published: 2011-10-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The man I had first seen through the open door passing behind Agents Smith and Jones at the airport, and later saw again in my hotel lobby, had left me uncertain about the phone in my hotel room. I had switched rooms, but by now he could have moved his surveillance equipment to my new room. I wandered outside, found a bench and called Brad Fisher on my cell phone.

Brad’s amazement over what I had encountered since arriving in France matched my own. This had become something more than the quick, quiet visit to France we had anticipated. If Garson Talmadge had stopped moving weapons for profit nearly fifteen years ago, what had happened to stir up the interest of the FBI? We didn’t know, but we needed to.

We discussed having a French lawyer take Camille’s sworn statement. Brad could then use it to support an attempt to obtain a court order for Susan’s and her brother’s DNA, if they refused to do so voluntarily. If they knew they were not his children, they might not want that known so we could expect them to fight it all the way. At least that was our reasoning.

Brad insisted I get Camille to sign such an affidavit before I left and to agree she would come to Long Beach to testify. In return, we would offer her all expenses paid, a case of whiskey and a case of chocolate bars, and the opportunity to spit on Garson’s grave. I figured the last item would seal the deal.

After Brad hung up, I returned to my hotel and took a hot shower. The chocolate that had been in my stomach the past several hours pickling in Seagram’s Seven had begun the second French Revolution. I wished I was an astronaut in outer space where the absence of gravity prevented the separation of liquids and gas necessary for the production of belches and farts.

After showering, I went back onto the streets desperate for something to eat, found a café and ordered a Salade Nicoise, a Croque Monsieur, which the menu described as a baked ham sandwich with garlic cream sauce and Swiss cheese, and topped it all off with Strawberries Romanoff.

While sipping coffee, my mind reworked what I had learned and my discussion with Brad Fisher. The chances of directing the jury to the theory that Susan and Charles might have killed Garson Talmadge had improved with the prospect they were not his children, at least according to Chantal’s sister, Camille. Had Susan and Charles learned that Garson was not their father, they would likely have confronted Garson to learn the identity of their real father. My reasoning said that he refused to tell them. Under this scenario Charles and Susan may have killed him; if so, I hoped it had only been Charles.

We also had to face the possibility that Charles was telling the truth, that Garson had called him to say he was dropping Clarice from his will. That Garson had told

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