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“It’s obscene,” Millie said “I can’t be exact, but I can count three other killings, Sergeant Boxer, and none of theated I saw your picture in the paper after the bo for you Like a connection”

As we stood to go, I told Millie I would follow up, giving her my card

“Do you have a phone?”

“Soe it,” she said But she pulled an old flip phone from her pocket and showed me

I forced some small bills on her, then told her I’d look into the case of Jimmy Dolan I paid the tab and headed back to the Hall

I thought about Millie as I walked She ell spoken Seemed educated and sane Her story and Millie herself were believable

I wondered how she’d ended up on the street

As I cliht-headed I had lied to Millie when I said I’d had breakfast I’d gulped coffee and kissedto have another cup of coffee at ry, which wasn’t normal for me I took the elevator to the fourth floor and entered the Homicide squad room

After saying “hey” to Conklin, I went to the break rooed the last donut in the box Someone had hacked off a piece of it In my humble opinion, that was an irrelevant detail

It was chocolate-glazed chocolate, the very best kind I bit into it It was good

CHAPTER 11

THE HOMICIDE SQUAD rooray bull pen with our receptionist just inside the door, our lieutenant’s glassed-in office in the back corner with aonto the freeway In between, on both sides of the narrow center aisle, are a handful of desks used by the other Homicide inspectors There has been so to newer quarters within the decade, and I hope it’s ossip

Conklin and I have facing desks at the front of the room, equidistant from the entrance and the break room I shucked off my jacket, threw it over the back of my chair, and dropped into the seat

Conklin said, “You have chocolate right here”

He pointed to the right side of his mouth