The Junkyard Dog (Jimmy Flannery Mysteries Book 1) by Robert Campbell

Author:Robert Campbell [Campbell, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Ayeshire Publishing
Published: 2015-09-06T23:00:00+00:00

I look for Pescaro and run him down in a deli over on Powell. He's having a pastrami with warm pickles which they heat for him in the steamer. I never heard of a person, except for Pescaro, ever doing such a thing. It's a very human thing for him to do.

"Can I sit?" I says.

"Sure you can sit," he says. "You cap even eat if you want, as long as I don't have to pay."

"Why did you let Joe Asbach go?"

"Because we got nothing on him. Not a thing. He's got eyewitnesses he's elsewhere. He's got a lady . . ."

"A whore."

". . . a professional lady who swears she was with him. This professional lady has other friends that swear by her honesty. They say she'll do things like a monkey and swing by her tail, but she won't tell a lie."

"Who are these friends?"

"You couldn't get that out of me, even with a subpoena," he says. "Be smart. What evidence you think you can find that will pin a match bomb to this Asbach . . ."

"Maybe his people . . ."

". . . or one of his people?"

". . . could be brought in and questioned."

"We got nothing, I tell you. Let it go at that. That's all the conversation I got for you if it's the only subject you know."

"Hey, you should forgive me," I says. "Like the cat, the Irish got curiosity. I didn't look you up to ask questions. Velletri talked to me. He said he'd make my concern for the killings his concern. He said he'd see the right thing done." I'm watching Pescaro like a bird with a worm. He doesn't flinch. "I got no interest anymore."

"So, why did you run me down while I'm eating, then?"

"To thank you for the favor."

"I done you a favor?"

"When I brought you the knife, you took special interest with the clinic on Sperry."

"I told a car to roll by now and then."

"I mean the man inside the clinic."

"I didn't put no man inside."

"He had a badge."

"Give me a sawbuck, I'll buy you a badge any costume shop," Pescaro says. "You want a pickle?"

I make a face.

"What kind of badge?" he says.

I just look at him.

"Hey, private detective," he says, "it could have been a deputy sheriff's badge. It could have been a Mickey Mouse badge."

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