Take a Step to Murder by Day Keene

Author:Day Keene [Keene, Day]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2018-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Eleven

RENNER TOLD TAMARA all he knew about Kelcey’s death. While he talked she started to pull her nightdress over her head preparatory to dressing and, suddenly self-conscious in front of him, allowed the sheer fabric to fall back around her ankles. Then, “Where are we going?” she said.

“I don’t know,” Renner said. “But something is very screwy here. Someone is doing something to someone. And from where I’m sitting, it looks like we’re the patsys.”

“The police are looking for you, too?”

“Every cop in Southern California. I had to beat up Bill Prichard and break out of jail to get here.”

“And if the police find us?”

“We’ll be arrested and charged with murder. Look. When Kelcey broke into the unit, did he have a briefcase with him? A case of any kind big enough to hold eighty thousand dollars?”

“If he did, I did not see it. This much money is missing?”

“Yes.”

“And you meant what you said before? That I mattered more to you than your court and you were coming to tell me so when you found Kelcey?”

“I never meant anything more.”

Tamara studied his face. “I believe you. I will be dressed in just a minute, Kurt.”

Renner watched her go into the bedroom, then turned on the sill and looked back out the window. At this same time yesterday morning all he had been able to think of was holding on to the Eldorado at all costs. Now he didn’t give a damn what happened to the court, or at least as much of a damn.

A newsboy came down the street carrying a huge sack of papers. When he reached the building he turned in and a moment later a folded paper thudded lightly against the door of the apartment. Tamara came out of the bedroom. She’d combed her hair and made up her face but hadn’t progressed very far with her dressing. All she was wearing was a half slip and her stockings.

“What was that?”

“Just the morning paper,” Renner said and winced mentally when Tamara, seeing him looking at her breasts, covered them with her hands.

Not that he blamed her. He doubted if things would ever be right between them again. Between him and Kelcey they’d taken care of that. He opened the door and took the paper from the runner and read it while he waited for Tamara.

The story had broken too late for there to be anything more than a phoned-in squib about the most recent development at the Eldorado. Mr. Thomas Anders, prominent Murietta County banker, had discovered an eighty thousand dollar shortage in his personal funds. It was believed his son, Kelcey Anders, had taken the money in an attempt to win the affections of a pretty blonde Hungarian refugee entertainer who only a few hours before had been involved in the tragic accident that had taken the life of John A. Baron. An intensive police search for both young Anders and Miss Daranyi was in progress.

Most of the front page was still concerned with the life and loves and peccadillos of the late multimillionaire.

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