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Bugs Moran, intended victiht aho'd e "Only Capone kills that way," he said

You couldn't say that here All too many people kill in all too many ways, and Motley's murders didn't run to type, not as far as I could see

All the saht away I didn't have to look at the murder scene or interview the victim's friends and felloorkers

All I needed to knoas her name Elizabeth Scudder

Back in es to s, three of them businesses I wasn't there, but Elizabeth was, listed as Scudder E J, with an address on Irving Place

I picked up the phone and started to call Durkin but stopped with the nuh, and put the receiver back in its cradle

The phone rang a few minutes later It was Elaine She'd had a call fro that she turn off the answering ain she'd done it At that point he stopped whispering and began talking in his normal tone of voice, whereupon she reached over and flicked a switch on the answering machine so that it would record the conversation

"But it didn't," she said "Can you believe it? The fucking , I don't know, I can't figure it out The tape advanced as if it were recording, but when I played it back there was nothing on it"

"Don't worry about it"

"He told ht I would have had it on tape, they could have checked it for voiceprints or whatever it is you do And I screwed it up"

"It doesn'tbrilliant when I switched the tape on I thought he'd incri on him"

"We would, but I don't think it would help I don't think this whole thing's going to resolve itself on the basis of soht The whole idea of an investigation see around in the dark while he goes on doing what he did last night"

"What did he do last night? He wasn't that specific, soof the conversation I gather he killed somebody"

"That's what he does"

"He told me to look in the newspaper but I didn't have one to look at I put the all-news station on but they didn't have anything, or if they did I must have missed it What happened?"

I filled her in, and she gasped predictably enough when she heard the victim's name

"It's no relation," I told her "I'm the only son of an only son, so I don't have any relatives narandfather have any brothers?"

"My father's father? I don't know, he may have He died before I was born, and I didn't have any Scudder great-uncles that I are of The Scudders cainally At least that's what I was told I don't know much about that side of the family"

"So you and Elizabeth could have been distantly related"

"I suppose so I suppose all the Scudders are related if you go back far enough Unless one of ed his nao back to Adaht, and we're all children of God Thanks for pointing that out"

"I' it register It's so awful that I don't want to have to take it seriously He ht she was a relative of yours"

"Maybe," I said "Maybe not There's so you have to re and clever and resourceful, but that doesn't change the fact that he's nuts"

The phone book was still open on the bed I looked at the list of ht to call the rest of thee your name," I could say, "or face the consequences"

Was that what he was going to do next? Would he actually try working his way through the list? Then he could hs, and after that there were always the suburbs