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Chapter 41
The following day we met after work for a drink at Susie, it was Agnes introduction to our group.All day, I couldn’t fix anything other than the thought of confronting Zaddicos with what we knew and bringing him in. I wanted to accelerate everything- a face to face confrontation. I wanted to let him know we had him. Goddam Red Beard.As we waited for drinks, I knew a couple of new development. A search of Hannah Simon’s home in Seattle had uncovered Zaddicos’s name and phone number in the dead bride’s phone book. A trace bu Northwest Bell has turned up three calls to him in the past month- including one three days before Cleveland wedding.it confirmed what Pascalin shortley had told us.“Right to the very end,” said Fatimah. “Creepy. Both of them actually.We had run Zaddicos’s photo by Maryanne Perkins of Saks as part of a photo spread with five others. We desperately needed something that pinned him to the first crime. She paused over his likeness for a few seconds. “It’s him, she
Chapter 40
Moo’s POVI was totally surprised when Alice appeared at my door at half past eleven. With a look of wide-eyed elation and pride, she blurted, “I know who was Hannah Simon’s lover was.”Richard Zaddicos,” I replied. “Come on in, Alice, down, snippy.” She was tugging at my Giants night shirt.“Oh God; she groaned, loudly. “I was so pumped up. I though I had found it,”She had found it. She had beaten Jude and Seattle. Two squads of trained investigators as well as the FBI. I looked at her with genuine admiration. “How?”Too restless to sit, Alice stalked around my living room as she too me through the steps of her amazing discovery. She unfolded a copy of the news photo showing Zaddicos and Hannah Simon at the movie opening. I watched her circle the couch, trying to keep up with herself:Bright star . . . Sierra. . . Crossed wire. . . She was hyper. “I’m a good reporter, Moo,” she said.I know you are.” I smiled at her. “ you just can’t write about it.Alice stopped- the sudden realizat
Chapter 39
At an old fashioned Stella desk in the dingy halls of the chronicle’s basement library, Alice Barry scrolled through four-year old articles on microfiche. It was late. After eight, working alone in the underbelly of the building, she felt as if she were some isolated Egyptologist scraping the dust off long-buried hieroglyphics tablets. She now knew why it was referred to as “the Tombs.”But she felt she was unto something. The dust is was coming off secrets, and something worthwhile would soon be clear to her.February. . . March, 1996. The film school shot by with in distinguishable speed.Someone famous, the Cleveland bride’s friend had said. Alive pushed the film onward. This was how stories were earned. Late nights and elbow grease l.Earlier, she had called the public relations firm Hannah Simon had worked for in San Francisco,Bright star media. News of their former staffer’s death had reached them only that day. Alive inquired about any feature films Bright stat might have had
Chapter 38
Isaiah’s statement felt like an elbow to my solar plexus. At the same time it removes all doubt for me.Hannah Simon, sparrow Ridge, clos du Mesnil champagne. Zaddicos was now tied in to all three murders.He was Ted Beard.I wanted to run and confront Zaddicos, but i knew o couldn’t. I wanted to get up close, glare in his smug eyes, let him know I knew.At the same time, a suffocating tightness swept up into my chest. I didn’t know if it was a flash of nausea, Negli’s, or the release of my bottled up rage.Whatever it was, I knew I had to get out. I’m leaving, i said to Gabriel. I was scared.He looked stunned and confused as I rushed out.“Hey, I say something wrong?” I heard Isaiah say.I grabbed my jacket and purse and ran down the steps to the street. My blood was rioting inside me like an angry demon. A cold sweat has broken out all over me.I ran out into the cool day, started to walk fast down the street.I had no idea where I was going. I felt like a foreign tourist wandering
Chapter 37
A couple of hours later, i sat in my hospital smock in the hematology clinic at moffett. Dr Kelvin would like a word with you before we start,” said Sara, my transfusion nurse. I felt nervous as she unpacked an IV setup for my treatment, truth was, I had been feeling okay. Not much pain or nausea other than the incident in the ladies room last week. Dr. Kelvin alked in with a Manila folder under his arm. His face was friendly but unconfiding?” I smiled weakly.”only good news?” He sat across from me on the ledge of a counter. “How are you feeling, Moo? “I wasn’t feeling so bad when I saw you before.” “Fatigued?” “Only a little. End of the day kind of thing.” Sudden nausea? Queasiness?” I admitted I had vomited suddenly once or twice He mad a quick notation on a chart.. He pages through some medical chart in the folder, I see we have undergone four packed red cell transfusion so far. . . My heart was racing the longer he took. Finally , he put down the folde
Chapter 36
The three of us leaned against a stone wall in the City Hall Park, picking at salad sandwich’s we had bought at a nearby grocer’s. The murder club meets again.“You were right,” I said to Fatimah. I passed her a copy of the security photo showing Res Beard sneaking into the Cleveland wedding.She stared at it, her eyes focusing intensely. Fatimah looked up only when the confirmation of her first physical supposition brought out a curious half smile. “ I only read whatever that Bastard left behind.”“Maybe,” I said tossing her a wink. “But I bet Righetti would have missed it.”“This is true,” she allowed with a satisfied beam.It was a bright, brezzt late June day; the air was fragrant from crisp pacific breeze. Office folk worked on their tan; gabbed in groups.I recounted what I had found in Cleveland what had taken place by the lake between Gabriel and me.When I finished with Pascalin shortley’s shocking revelation, Alice said, “maybe you should have stayed out there, Moo.”I shook
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