Cinderella
by Ed McBain
She was a hooker, but a hooker with style, looks, youth -- and a
once-in-a-million shot at the big money, a real chance to buy her
way out of The Life. The downside was her target: a Latino drug-dealer
whose idea of a good time did not include losing four kilos of cocaine
to a broad -- and a hooker at that.
He was a slightly overweight, middleaged private investigator with
a penchant for whiskey and a lonely habit of hanging out in bars. He
didn't have an enemy in the world -- until someone tailed him after
he left the last bar and, on a deserted Florida highway, shot him
dead.
Matthew Hope was in bed with his ex-wife when he heard the radio
announcer say that Otto Samalson had been shot dead on U.S. 41:
Otto, at work on a case for Mathtew; Otto, who'd said at their
last meeting, 'I think my days are numbered.'
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