Gilded Canary (2009)
“Cracks Henderson. Cracks Henderson and Muffy Dearborn.
It didn’t add up. What the hell was she doing in the hay with him? She wasn’t the type to sleep with the hired help, and that’s all Cracks ever seemed to be with her. True, he’d been eyeing her hungrily at the opening night party, but he hadn’t even been dirt in her eyes, because he was less than that. When she’d looked at him, she’d seen nothing. Zip. Zero. So why? Why now? Or was he reading her completely wrong?
His concentration was broken by Jimmy the Newsie, who, he finally realized, was tugging at his elbow. Had been for some moments.
His lip curled.
“What are you doing here? I can’t believe I’m seeing you again, after you set me up to get creamed.”
“1 didn’t have nothin’ to do with it, believe me, Mr. Lockwood,” Jimmy told him, giving him the “Mister” in an attempt to insinuate himself back into Lockwood’s good graces.
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