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"Old e-- or yours Not that it matters Wonder if she’d ever date a cop NotIn fact, it was so bad, I was afraid ht on the floor But she atching you Whatever her age, shea brow to his young companion

"Not that forty is actually old," Jack said quickly "But I mean, hell, she just didn’t seem interested in me at all"

"Jack, she could well be a murder suspect"

"Oh, coht and a hundred and thirty pounds, tops

Slender--but, s I’ve always really liked a great set of legs And hersBut she’s just put together right all way around Wonder if she works at it I wonder if she goes to a gym And if she does, I wonder which one I’d like to see her in work-out clothes"

"Jack, I repeat, she could well prove to be a ant exa the parts strewn on top of a tomb?"

"We don’t have a definite link on the , and blood drops that create a trail to her door"

"There are several dozen people working in that office building, Sean And we’ve got forensic guys searching for more blood, and she didn’t see so And if we find , that doesn’t label her as the killer It’s absurd! I’m not as experienced as you are, but even I know that it takes souy was killed elsewhere and brought to the sidewalk, she’d have to be incredibly strong With or without blood, that corpse was no lightweight"

"So, if she didn’t kill hi the person who did"

"And a psychopath could have done in our corpse, and used her building as an escape route"

"Could have--but we’re going to have to follow everyof this kind in a few days’ ti to butcher us"

"Headless corpsesI guess it is a little unusual, even for New Orleans," Jack said gluie?" Sean inquired dryly

"Miss Montgoie fits her"

"Because she’s so war "Go on, be a cynic"

"Yeah, I can see you telling the chief, ‘Sir, the wos, and you’ll know that in an instant!’ "

"Right You looked at her eyes the whole tireat breasts, too, though can’t say that I could really judge beneath that suit"

"Sweet Jesus," Sean muttered

"You’ve been around the block too e"

"Yeah, maybe I aether a task force and have a ht have learned so Then, oh, hell, we’re going to have to have soht The press will be ready to sever our heads!" Jack ht The media would definitely be up for their own brand of decapitation, and if this situation couldn’t be solved quickly, they’d all be bleeding

Soie’s employees were disturbed by the murder that had apparently taken place so close to the building

Oddly enough, others weren’t Maggie had asked all her employees into the downstairs shop area just after five--quitting tiht She’d ements to see that those alked to homes in the Vieux Carre did so in pairs, and those who drove out of the old town area were escorted to their cars In the end, however, a few of her girls re untouched by the events

"Honey," Cissy told her, "I don’t have truck with lowlifes like that pimp and a prostitute Now, this is N’Awleans, and I do keep careful, but I keep ht streets, and if all the drug pushers and pimps in this city have the desire to decapitate one another, then soto watch Dean’s band with us tonight or what?" Dean, the twenty-five-year-old son of Chance Lebrow, one of her fewroo with a half dozen other instrue and he’d just finished up his ree in architecture in New York and co in one of the popular local clubs on Bourbon Street

"I’ie told her "I’m not in the party mood"