章 119: Chapter 119

“I have to agree with you on that.” The landlord had tried to bluster his way out of answering our questions, but instead of us playing good cop/bad cop, we’d decided we’d both be bad cops. And we’d leaned on him.

Not that it had done much good, even though he’d told us everything he knew. It just hadn’t been a lot. All he knew about Jeanette Van Orden was that she was a pretty woman he wanted to screw—his words—but she kept herself and her boy to themselves, and it wasn’t until just before she took off that he’d had his chance with her.

As it turned out, Murchison didn’t know who the men were who’d broken down the door to apartment 2C—Jeanette’s apartment—or why they’d wanted the woman and the boy. They’d used the landlord for a punching bag, but it hadn’t taken much to break him, and he’d promised to say nothing and keep Jeanette and Joe in the apartment house.