Bad Faith by Robert K. Tanenbaum

Author:Robert K. Tanenbaum
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2012-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

An hour and a half later, Marlene walked back in the front door of her family home. Her husband looked up as she took off her coat and hat.

“There you are,” he said. “I was getting worried …” Suddenly he stopped. He knew the look on her face spelled trouble. “What’s up?”

It took about forty-five minutes for Marlene to tell him what Nonie Ellis had said, and another twenty minutes for him to run out of questions as he took notes. At last he set his pencil down on the legal pad and sat back on the couch.

“It’s a start,” Karp said. “Of course, it all needs to be checked out and expanded before I can take it to a grand jury. I’ll get Clay to—”

“I’m going to Memphis,” Marlene interrupted. “That son of a bitch, as you so rightly labeled him, has done this to other people. I know it.”

Karp shook his head. “I don’t think that’s a good idea,” he said. “This is a police matter.”

Marlene wasn’t having it. “You send detectives down there and it’s a fishing expedition,” she said. “Westlund, or LaFontaine if that’s his real name, will go to the press and raise hell about your trying to crucify him. I need to try to find some of these other people, and they’ll talk to me more than they will a cop.”

“You know I have to pick up Nonie Ellis,” he said. “I need to get a statement from her and get her to testify against Westlund.”

“Good luck,” Marlene said. “No telling which way she went after we finished. And besides, this is my case; she asked me to look into it. I’m a private investigator and that’s what I’m going to do.”

They argued a little longer, then their eyes locked. Karp knew that there was no way to stop her, so he reached out to hug her and whispered in her ear, “Say hi to Elvis for me, and be careful.”

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