the Glitter Dome (1984) by Wambaugh Joseph

Author:Wambaugh, Joseph [Joseph, Wambaugh,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-12-23T23:20:50.687000+00:00

The Gunfighter

Tuesday morning was a bad day in the squadroom. The United States Supreme Court had just decreed that it was no fair if the cops used a third-party conversation to "trick" a murderer into confessing. Henceforth, Schultz had to watch what he said to Simon in the presence of any more stranglers they arrested if what he said somehow persuaded the strangler that the jig was up and he might as well confess where he buried his corpses and piano wire. It was a very black Tuesday.

In fact, the nine old pussies of the Potomac had made Schultz so mad he couldn't take a joke when the call came in from Gloria La Marr down at the county lockup.

The Weasel said they write lots of songs about lovers parted by prison walls, and Schultz informed the Weasel that the health plan includes dental care now, so go ahead and keep dumping on him.

"Hello, Gunther, how are you?" Gloria La Marr purred.

"Hi, Gloria," Schultz said, then turned his bearish body toward the pin map on the wall and put his hand over the mouthpiece, since the entire squadroom was eavesdropping.

"I told them at my arraignment that I just wanted to plead guilty so as not to be no more trouble," Gloria La Marr said.

"That's the right thing to do, Gloria," Schultz said.

"This is a very confidential call. You were awful nice to me, buying me drinks and all, and never making fun of me like other people sometimes do."

"You're a nice person, Gloria," Schultz said.

"Thank you, Gunther. Well, they have me in the sissy tank with all the gay people so I don't think I have to worry about being... attacked or nothing like that."

"That's good, Gloria," Schultz said. "I'm glad to hear that."

"I'm going to have the rest of my operation just as soon as I get out."

"That's good too, Gloria," Schultz said.

"Reason I called you is, well, I know I can trust you and I know nobody in jail will ever find out and... well, if anything good should happen as a result of what I'm going to tell you, well, I just know you'd talk to the judge and..."

"I'll help you any way I can, you know that."

"Thank you, Gunther," Gloria said. And then she knocked off the cooing and her voice became more tense and masculine. "I never snitched off nobody before, you understand. I never gave nobody up, but... well, there's a boss queen down here named Violet. She read all about the thing where two of your cops started following a silver Mercedes in Hollywood and ended up in San Pedro. Violet was in the army ten years ago and she spent a year in Vietnam and she knows a little of the language. She swears she tricked with Bozwell, that guy the cops arrested. Him and a Vietnamese guy picked her up on the street in that Mercedes a few nights before she read about the bust. The guy Bozwell was drunk and talked to the other guy in rice-paddy lingo.

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