One Murder at a Time: A Casebook. Richard A. Lupoff
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The fake tattoos weren’t a big surprise, I’ve seen perps before who put on some bizarre garment or wig to distract attention from their faces, so the tattoo makes sense. Grisly sense of humor, though. Tod.”
“I thought that was his name,” Marvia put in, “or maybe the name of a lost love.”
“That would be Todd with two d’s. Tod with one d is German for Death. And that’s what he was peddling. Good thing your new little camera works, Vangie.”
Computer-generated blowups of the key frames Vangie had shot during Apryl Pyzn’s final crowd-surf lay on her desk. In one of them the tell-tale embroidered sleeve was visible. From it protruded a hand holding a hypodermic needle, about to plunge it into Apryl Pyzn’s leg.
“But that fake belly…where do you think he got the idea for that?”
“Some movie,” Evangeline put in. “They send stills to us at the Mirror and the other papers all the time. They can make a fake anything now, that you can hardly tell from a real one. Including a big roly-poly belly.”
“And Tod—or whatever his real name is—carried his stock of poison inside the fake belly. In the Crash Club it was easy to deliver his drugs and collect cash. Dark, crowded, the place was full of odd characters, most of them anonymous. As for killing Apryl Pyzn—we’re still checking her background, and the rest of PRYZN GYRLZ, but I expect we’ll learn that Tod was their supplier and he got into some kind of fight with Apryl. She wouldn’t pay her bills, or he’d been delivering bad merchandise, or—whatever. We’ll find out. I expect the other PRYZN GYRLZ will be happy to cut a deal and get Tod sent away forever if not longer.”
Dorothy Yamura allowed herself one of her rare smiles. “You think you could work narco again, Marvia?”
Marvia didn’t answer at once. She was thinking of her son, in bed and asleep now. She thought of him in the daylight, running, laughing, alive.
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