Booking In. Jack Batten
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Название: Booking In
Автор: Jack Batten
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Крутой детектив
Серия: A Crang Mystery
isbn: 9781459736931
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“Meg’s not the type to chose a mutt for a husband.”
“Was either guy a con man?”
“Both of them successful businessmen with their own money. Neither is a billionaire, but they’re probably millionaires.”
“That seems to let them out as persons of interest in any regard as far as my case is concerned.”
Annie leaned back in her chair, looking up at Faema’s uncommonly high ceiling. “You know,” she said, “this place has the strangest contours of any coffee shop I’ve ever been in.”
“That’s because it didn’t begin life as a coffee shop.”
“Crang, old sport, that part I figured out already.”
“It was an automobile showroom.”
Annie looked around the room, taking in the broad open space and the sweeping windows on two sides.
“Yeah,” she said, “it has that look.”
“The whole building opened a hundred years ago as a Ford assembly plant.”
“You’re kidding me,” Annie said.
“The history is on plaques pinned up around the building. Ford opened it in 1915. The car parts were delivered by train on the tracks that still run past the north side of the building. People assembled the parts on three floors, then they test-drove the finished product on the roof. Down here where we’re sitting, this was the showroom.”
“Aren’t you just a fount of local history.”
“I got more if you’d care to hear it.”
“I’ll coast for now, thank you.”
Annie had almost finished her café au lait.
“Are you going to eat either of those other two biscotti on the plate?” I said.
“If you confine yourself to just one of them and leave the last cookie for me,” Annie said, “I’ll tell you something that might pique your interest.”
“Some more Grantham family material?”
“This is guaranteed juicy.”
“Just one biscotti,” I said. “And the revelation has got to be juicy as promised.”
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