By Gil Brewer
The best of the style. nice book.
"He shot Jake Halloran within the head, then grew to become to me, smiling, the Luger held loosely in his correct hand.
“Hello, pal,” he acknowledged. “My name’s Ralph Angers. What’s yours?”
That’s how I met him, this grave-looking, clean-cut, absolutely mad younger guy, who walked via my city with a gun, leaving a wake of tears and affliction and homicide in the back of him."
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Sie suchte für ihn im Britischen Museum immer die Unterlagen heraus – und derartige Dinge. Sie hatte vorher schon Lord Mulcaster bei seinem Buch geholfen. Und sie war taktvoll – ich meine: Sie suchte nicht die falschen Dinge heraus. Schließlich hat jeder Mensch Vorfahren, an die er nicht gern erinnert werden möchte. In diesem Punkt war Gervase sehr empfindlich. Mir hat sie übrigens auch geholfen. Eine Menge Informationen über Hatschepsut hat sie mir besorgt. « Diese Neuigkeit gab Lady Chevenix-Gore mit ruhiger Stimme 41 bekannt.
Betrogen? « Lady Chevenix-Gore schüttelte den Kopf, immer noch ohne wirkliches Interesse. « »Vor dem Abendessen, auf dem Weg nach unten, schaute er wie gewöhnlich bei mir herein. Meine Zofe war dabei. « »Ach, über die Familiengeschichte. Er kam so gut damit voran. Und er hatte diese seltsame Frau, Miss Lingard, gefunden, die für ihn unbezahlbar war. Sie suchte für ihn im Britischen Museum immer die Unterlagen heraus – und derartige Dinge. Sie hatte vorher schon Lord Mulcaster bei seinem Buch geholfen.
Aber natürlich! « »Lassen Sie mich einen Moment überlegen. Zum Beispiel merkte ich, daß er manchmal anscheinend gar nicht begriff, was ich ihm erzählte…« »Einen Moment. Pardon. « »Heute nachmittag. « »Wie ich schon sagte, fiel es Sir Gervase anscheinend schwer, sich zu konzentrieren – er erwähnte es sogar selbst und fügte noch hinzu, daß verschiedene ernste Angelegenheiten ihn stark beschäftigten. « »Ach, irgend etwas Besänftigendes. « »Mehr oder weniger. Wir wandten uns dann wieder Sir Roger Chevenix-Gore zu.