1. When I got there, Joe Durkin was already holding down a corner table…
2. He’d originally suggested dinner at seven, but I’d pushed it back to…
3. The Greensville Correctional Center is located just outside of Jarratt…
4. The cell is larger than he’d expected, and more comfortably appointed.
5. At a meeting over the weekend a woman whom I knew by sight came up…
6. There’s a Red Roof Inn just outside of Jarratt, at the exit off I-95, but on…
7. The first thing TJ tried was the phone number. It was his cell phone…
8. He’s up before the alarm rings. He showers, shaves, dresses. He’s saved a…
9. It’s noon, and no one has yet made an appearance on the other side of the…
10. Monday night I was having a cup of coffee in front of the television set…
11. He holds the bronze letter opener in his hands, turns it over, runs a finger…
12. I didn’t much want to give my client a report of the night’s proceedings, …
13. Downstairs, he gives his name. He gets off the elevator to find her framed…
14. Mother Blue’s was either half full or half empty, depending I suppose…
15. I woke up to the smell of coffee, and when I got to the kitchen Elaine…
16. They weren’t really set up for viewing. The autopsy wasn’t finished…
17. In a Kinko’s on Columbus Avenue, he sits at a computer terminal, where…
18. TJ said, “You already thought of this, and it don’t make sense anyway, …
19. “I guess you’ll want to get upstairs,” I said. “Don’t you have to see how…
20. The letter opener was sealed in a clear plastic evidence bag. Sussman…
21. The Canarsie line runs east from Eighth Avenue and Fourteenth…
22. After they left I checked Elaine’s appointment book. I started to copy…
23. Knives are beautiful.
24. I went first to Grogan’s, the uncompromising old Irish bar at Fiftieth…
25. I took the long way home from Grogan’s, up Tenth Avenue to…
26. That was Friday, and according to the Times it was the longest day of…
27. It is, he has to admit, a disturbingly good likeness. It’s in the papers and…
28. “I see your wife’s shop is closed until further notice,” Sussman said.
29. He had a rough time,” I said. “He had a job and a girlfriend, and he…
30. “You know,” Ira Wentworth said, “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve…
31. He sits in the coffee shop. He has a table next to the window, and he can…
32. It was late morning when Mark Sussman called. Had I caught the item…
33. Sometimes it seems to him that there truly are guardian angels, and that…
34. The phone call came a few minutes after five. I let the machine pick…
35. The bastard’s wary.
36. I slept poorly, and kept slipping in and out of a drinking dream. I woke…
37. He is completely tuned in, perfectly focused, and he hears the turning of…
38. Could I have heard something?
39. I’m floating. I’m in empty sky, or in a sea of nothingness. I’m floating.
40. There may have been other times when I recovered consciousness, or…
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