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Автор Дональд Бейн
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three - A Few Weeks Later
Chapter Four - Autumn—That Same Year
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight - Thanksgiving Day
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve - A Few Days Later
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen - The Following Saturday
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
“Hello?” I said. My voice was thick with sleep. As always happens when the phone rings at an odd hour, I expected the worst possible news.
“Suppose I woke you. Sorry about that. ”
“It’s—it’s four-thirty in the morning. ” I pulled my plaid-flannel sheets and down comforter over my head and pressed my ear against the earpiece.
“Who is this?”
“Sheriff Mort Metzger. ” He sounded offended that I didn’t know.
“Why are you calling at this ungodly hour?”
“They found somebody dead up at Worrell. ”
“Who?” I asked.
“A young woman. ’Bout twenty-nine, thirty. Name’s Maureen Beaumont. A classical musician. Played the flute, I think. ”
“How did she die?”
“Gunshot to the head. ”
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