Angel Heart Page #4

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Casting spells

at society do's and stuff.

Didn't go down too well with

the lvy League stiffos.

She was known as the Witch of Wellesly.

Did I do good?

Great! So what've I got:

A religious loonie as a client.

I gotta find Johnny "Golden Tonsils"

and we don't know where he is.

And he probably doesn't know who he is.

I got a geriatric bandleader

in a home in Harlem.

I got a guitar player

called Toots Sweet.

What else have I got?

A hard-on?

Are you okay?

January 3rd,

Copy:
Winesap & Mackintosh,

attorneys. As reported,

Johnny Favorite has not been

in the Sarah Dodd Clinic in

Poughkeepsie for the last 12 years.

He was taken away by a man

called Edward Kelley and a girl.

The girl is unidentified.

Kelley paid a Dr. Fowler $25,000

to falsify reports

stating

that Favorite was still in the hospital.

The doctor is now deceased.

Before Johnny's accident it seemed

like his career was going great,

until he started to dump on everyone.

I tracked down Spider Simpson,

Johnny's old bandleader. He resides

at the Lincoln Presbyterian Hospice

on 138th Street. Johnny also

had a good buddy, a guitar player

called Toots Sweet.

Toots went back to Algiers.

That's Algiers in New Orleans.

I think maybe Margaret went back there,

and maybe Johnny, too.

Oh, yeah! According to Spider,

Johnny had a secret love.

A black lady

called Evangeline Proudfoot.

Evangeline ran

some kind of spooky store in Harlem

called "Mammy Carter's."

You don't

need to know that, Cyphre. I think

a secret love should stay secret.

The only person

who Johnny was seeing regularly

was a palm reader

in Coney Island called Madame Zora.

Are you lzzy?

Looks like the last bit of sun, eh?

The guy in the arcade over there

told me you might be able to help me.

I'm looking for Madame Zora. - I know

her, friend of the wife before the war.

She was a fortune teller, right?

- And then some!

I hate those hocus-pocus b*tches!

Her and the wife got along real well.

Wife's a baptist. Oh, here!

Have a nose shield!

Go on, take one. I found a whole

boxful under the boardwalk.

There's not much sun right now.

Yeah, but it keeps the rain off too.

Ever hear of a Johnny Favorite?

The singer?

- Yeah, he used to visit Madame Zora.

Heard of him, but don't know nothing.

Ask the wife.

She always sings stupid tunes

off the radio. She knows all that sh*t.

She likes the water, eh?

- She hates it.

She's getting on the heavy side.

She thinks it's good for varicose veins.

Alright, thanks.

What do you do here in the summer?

Bite the heads off the rats.

And in the winter?

- The same.

Excuse me!

I was just talking to your husband.

I was inquiring about Madame Zora.

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