A Walk Among the Tombstones Page #3

I thought they were making a delivery.

I don't remember a van.

I do remember the pita maker,

Mrs. Youness, came in

and was all like, "Oh, what happened?

Are we okay?"

She saw two men and a woman

run across the street away from

the store and leap into a van.

She thought they had

just robbed the store.

Two men?

Yeah.

I think it had the name of a

TV repair place on the side.

Two initials, like B & R TV.

For sure. J & M Heating.

R & L Stereo.

B & A Appliance.

TJ, I'd like a word with you.

Now, please.

I know you've been sleeping here.

Sh*t.

I know because Mr. Keyser

says you left a god-awful

mess in the men's room.

Not to mention the

mess you've left here.

TJ, you've got to...

He'll clean it up later, okay?

Right now he's helping

me with something.

You get back issues of all the

New York papers on there?

For what?

Naw, I'm good.

Can see from right here.

Not the first old

white dude, come in here,

try to put a hand on me.

Okay.

Child of God.

What?

The name. Gotteskind.

It means "child of God."

It's German.

Except, clearly, God never

looked out for Marie.

TJ? That short for something?

Yeah, it's short for "TJ."

You 5-0?

Nope.

'Cause you've got that look.

I work private.

Yeah? Like Sam Spade?

Yeah, just like him.

What I'm saying is, I read about him.

And Marlowe, too.

All of those guys.

You spend that much time in here?

Some. Mostly when it rains.

Just like the sound it makes, you know?

Matt.

Short for Matthew.

So why you looking at

dead b*tches, Matthew?

So these guys we're

looking for, they be like

real 730, or just, like, thugs?

Like real what?

730. It's the time they give

out the meds in a mental ward.

Right. 730.

Can that program go back another year?

Listen to you. "That program."

Take you maybe a minute to figure out

how to work Yahoo all by yourself.

Why bother?

From what I hear, it's all

going to sh*t in six months.

Please, please, man.

I got way more important things to do

than worry about all that Y2K bullshit.

How ironical.

What's that?

Dumping an already dead

body at a cemetery.

Tuesday. The body of Leila Andresen

a 25-year-old Interior Design

major at Brooklyn College

was found at Green-Wood Cemetery.

Andresen had been missing two

days when Eduardo Solomon,

florist across the street

from the cemetery,

found what was later identified

as a portion of the victim's leg

in the dumpster behind his shop.

That same day,

more human remains were found

scattered about the cemetery

by a groundskeeper.

Witnesses say Andresen was last seen

getting into a blue van with three men.

Andresen's fianc, Reuben Quintana,

told police that he and Leila were

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