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“I’ve got this thing tonight, too, at the New Astoria One of those gold plate dinners”

“The Astoria dinner ball, sure” Her smile turned derisive “I don’t work the social beat, Dallas, but I can tell the assignood for the gossip eaters It is you and Roarke, isn’t it?”

“I’ll let you knohere you can catchthe insult “I’ll feed you regular updates to air”

“Fine” Nadine rose “Maybe you’ll trip over the killer on your way to faent yet?”

For a ether “I thought it was your job to fill airtiht to know, not to moralize”

“And I thought it was yours to serve and protect, not to cash in” Nadine snagged up her bag by the strap “Catch you on the screen, Lieutenant”

“Nadine” Pleased, Eve tipped back in her chair “You left out one of those basic human motives for violence before Thrill”

“I’ll make a note of it” Nadine wrenched at the door, then let it slip out of her hands When she turned back, her face hite and shocked under its sheen of camerabait?”

“Pissed you off, didn’t it?” S her feet on the desk Nadine’s reaction had brought the reporter up several notches on Eve’s opinion scale “Thinking aboutit, really stea to steam hietting all my press’ ”

Nadine came back in and sat down carefully “You had me Dallas, I’m not about to tell you how to do your job—”

“Then don’t”

“Let ht You deduce the motive was, at least partially, for the thrill, for the attention in the et press, sure, but not so intense, not so complete”

“Kill two prominent citizens, familiar faces, and the sky’s the limit”

“So you et”

“It’s just a hunch” Thoughtfully, Eve scratched a vague itch on her knee “It could be that all I’ll end up with is a lot of idiotic blips of me on screen”