He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back it was to...
A diamond wedding ring, you say?I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she’s after, I said. Did you hold out hope you’d get by for anyt...
Quote taken from Chapter 1: That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper." He let that part gel in me. "Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it liv...
Get a load of this, Frank. Gerald Peyton’s pause set off his pronouncement. She is expecting to get a wedding ring.That’s understandable, I said, unsure how he could afford a ring on what our firm cle...
I let my gaze travel out the picture window. Unlike at my old doublewide trailer perched on the fringe of a played out quarry, here I owned a real yard with real grass that screamed for mowing each Mo...
Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham. So I offer you a fair middle ground: relocate to northern Virginia. She transfers to the state morgue on Braddock...
So you shoot people, she said quietly. You're a killer.Me? How?The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I don't believe everything I read.Oh, you think I accounted for Geiger - or Brody-or bo...