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Tampa was where young Bill McCaskil had his first recorded brush with the law. A
Consequently it was no surprise that Lady Luck dumped her in Tampa. No Fetterman was listed, either as an individual or as a business. A
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"You can do that?" A
"It'll take a second."
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The strange quiet of telephone lines, not pushed full of Muzak, trickled into A
"Well," the operator came back on the line. "We've got something."
"Let's have it," A
"Fetterman's Adventure Trails on Highway Forty-One."
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Rubbing the ear she'd compressed into the phone receiver for so long, A
Harry was out to lunch. Marya
The sandwich and the typing were set aside while A
On a case incident report submitted ten days earlier by the district ranger on the northwest side of the park, A
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The secretary's sandwich reminded A
To impose order where none naturally suggested itself, A
Too much for coincidence, not enough for sense. Could the truck and horse trailer belong to McCaskil or have been borrowed or stolen by McCaskil? Sure. But then why was his own legally registered vehicle parked in a frontcountry parking lot? Who was Carl Micou? Did McCaskil have a confederate and, if so, a confederate in what?
None of this brought A
Back on the phone, she reco
It was not advisable to spin tales for a past master at the art of professional dissimulation, so A
"I'm Officer A
A pause, then a careful voice as devoid of regional inflections as that of a radio a
"We have a couple leads, both weak at this point. We're trying to establish any prior co
It was not returned tenfold. "And you want me to…," the voice came back.
"Answer a few questions, if you would."
"Ask your questions."
There would be no softening up or slithering around Claude. A
"We can't divulge any client information."
"The fact that a person has engaged the services of an attorney does not fall under attorney-client privilege," A
She waited through a clearly audible sigh breathed out in an office in Seattle. "I'll put you through to the secretary. Give her the names. She will tell you if any of them have engaged the professional services of Carolyn Van Slyke in the past year. She won't go back further than that and she will not tell you anything else."