Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

Author:Carl Hiaasen [Hiaasen, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Mystery Fiction, Humorous, Suspense, Florida, Literary, Private Investigators, Humorous Stories, Florida Keys (Fla.), Tourism - Florida, Private Investigators - Florida, Tourism
ISBN: 9780783816470
Publisher: G K Hall & Co
Published: 1987-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

“Suppose you rewrote Skip’s next column.”

“Suppose I let Bloodworth try it,” Mulcahy said.

“Oh boy.” In Wiley’s words, rewriting was a mortal sin, punishable by castration. Spray-painting the Sistine Chapel, he used to call it.

Keyes thought he noticed the old boy’s eyes twinkle.

“Suppose I gave it to Bloodworth and told him to punch up the lead. Make it more hardhitting. Asked him to tinker with some of Skip’s more energetic passages.”

“Might turn into something the Bahamians wouldn’t like,” Keyes mused. “Might wear out Skip’s welcome real quick.”

“I can’t believe we’re talking about this.”

“Suppose it works,” Keyes said. “Let’s say he comes back to Miami. Then what?”

“Intercept him at the airport,” Mulcahy said. “Turn him in, take him out of circulation. Get him some professional help.”

“He could always plead insanity.”

‘I’m considering it myself,” Mulcahy muttered. “After twenty-two years you’d think I could spot a psychopath in my own newsroom.”

“On the contrary,” said Keyes. “The longer you’re in the business, the harder it gets.”

Mulcahy was one of those rare editors who’d gone into newspapers for all the right reasons, with all the right instincts and all the right sensibilities. He was a wonderful fluke—fair but not weak, tough but not heartless, aggressive but circumspect. The Wiley situation was tearing him up.

Mulcahy toyed with a memo, shredding the edges. “I pulled his personnel file today, just for kicks. Jesus Christ, Brian, it’s full of wild stuff. Stuff I’d forgotten all about.”

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