"Dean Wesley Smith - A Hard Rain" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith Dean Wesley)

It was raining in the city by the bay.

A hard rain. Hard enough to wash the slime out of the streets and back into the holes they crawled out
of. The radiator behind me cracked and popped as it fought the valiant fight to keep the cold and damp
out of the office. Beyond the single pane window, the deep sounds of a far-off ship’s horn echoed
through the fog and rain, crying out like a lost animal in the night.

I loved the city, every stinking thing about it.

I nestled my fedora down tight on my head and pulled the collar of my coat up around my neck as I
glanced one more time around my office. The single wood desk commanded the room. The empty chair
behind the desk sat with its back to the city beyond the window, as if what went on out there on those
damp streets meant nothing.

But that wasn’t true.

The city was like a dame, demanding attention, taking what it could and giving back even more. But for
the moment, it would have to wait. I had just finished one case. I wanted to savor the feeling of putting
the creep behind bars, where he belonged.

With one last glance at the cars splashing water on the black streets below my window, I turned and
said, “Computer. Door.”

Then with a few steps I left room 312, my office, the office of Dixon Hill, Private Investigator, and
strolled onto the perfectly lit, comfortably warm corridors of theEnterprise.

Little did I know that I would be forced to return to those cold, wet streets of 1941 San Francisco much
sooner than planned. And for a reason much more deadly than any simple Dixon Hill murder case. . . .




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imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or
dead, is entirely coincidental.

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