Matthew Scudder 01 - The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block

Matthew Scudder 01 - The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061797583
Publisher: HarperCollins


I had obtained more from Marcia Thal than I’d expected. Maybe it was as much as I needed.

You have to know when to stop. You can never find out everything, but you can almost always find out more than you already know, and there is a point at which the additional data you discover is irrelevant and time you spend on it wasted.

I could fly out to Indiana. I would learn more, certainly. But when I was done I didn’t think I would necessarily know more than I did now. I could fill in names and dates. I could talk to people who had memories of their own of Wendy Hanniford. But what would I get for my client?

I signaled for the check. While the waitress was adding things up, I thought of Cale Hanniford and asked Marcia Thal if Wendy had spoken often of her parents.

“Sometimes she talked about her father.”

“What did she say about him?”

“Oh, wondering what he was like.”

“She felt she didn’t know him?”

“Well, of course not. I mean, I gather he died before she was born, or just about. How could she have known him?”

“I meant her stepfather.”

“Oh. No, she never talked about him that I remember, except to say vaguely that she ought to write them and let them know everything was all right. She said that several times, so I got the impression it was something she kept not getting around to.”

I nodded. “What did she say about her father?”

“I don’t remember, except I guess she idolized him a lot. One time I remember we were talking about Vietnam, and she said something about how whether the war was bad or not, the men who were fighting it were still good men, and she talked about how her father was killed in Korea. And one time she said, ‘If he had lived, I guess everything would be different.’ ”

“Different how?”

“She didn’t say.”



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