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Mambo to Murder. Ronal Kayser
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isbn 9781479429912
Автор произведения Ronal Kayser
Жанр Ужасы и Мистика
Издательство Ingram
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“Didn’t a man ever make a pass at you before?”
“Not like this!”
“What’s wrong with this? Don’t you know real lovemaking begins where the movies leave off? No reason we should waste time on a routine of photogenic poses. We’re two human beings got to find out fast how much we could mean to each other.”
She stopped standing on tiptoe, even seemed to allow herself a slight wiggle on the way down.
“See, Shona. We’re a swell fit, huh?”
“Wait. What do you mean, we have to find out fast?”
“You didn’t notice any razor, shave cream, talc, or toothbrush up there in the medicine cabinet. Reason is, all that stuff’s packed. . . . I’m blowing this town . . . and it’s going to keep something a lot more emotionally satisfying than fifty bucks cash to change my plans.”
Shona straightened. She’d a queer, benumbed feeling inside my arms now.
“Didn’t I make myself clear, Joe? I’m not peddling sex.”
“Okay by me! Question is, do I stand a chance, or have you got a romantic interest in this retired lonely-heart from Chicago or Seattle or where the hell?”
“Me—in love with Mr. Westburne?” she gasped.
“Yeah. Damned if I’ll stick my neck in a noose to find that guy so you can fall into his arms.”
“Joe, I swear . . .” but I couldn’t hear what she was swearing because right then a knocking started that threatened to lift the apartment door off its hinges.
“Wait, hold it.”
I stepped that way, opened the door, and was face-to-face with a pair of uniformed squad-car bulls.
One of them rolled out in a bass-drum voice:
“Moran, you’re under arrest.”
It was no use trying to slam the door in their faces. They’d bust in, anyway, really take the place apart if I tried that.
From the tail of my eye I saw Shona framed in the bathroom doorway, quivering like a scared rabbit.
I whipped my hand into my pocket and fished out Elmer Hoke’s sap. A billy’s a concealed deadly weapon, same as a gun, that’d earn me at least time in the road camp if I got picked up toting it. I flipped the wicked little baton to Shona . . . saw her catch it and whirl out of sight behind the closing bathroom door. I stepped out into the hall to give myself up to the cops.
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