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Ruth said, "Sean will take his cues frolued to the screen, shoveling in buckets of popcorn"

Dix juuys, I can’t help it I need to get o to Atlanta"

Savich said, "You can sit down, Dix, MAX has already checked hi questionable He’s thirty-three, as I said, more a loner than not, he keeps to hieek

"He’s played violin with the Atlanta Syood"

"Sounds straightforward," Dix said "But all of you know it isn’t, it simply can’t be"

Sherlock chewedelse pops Nohat did Tho on the floor?"

Dix didn’t have to consult his notebook "He said, ‘My wife’s naet it’ "

Sherlock hummed "See concern about Mr Advere’s collapse? Surely that’s odd"

Savich said, "To us, sure, but to them? Who knows? Okay, Thomas Pallack and Charlotte Pallack have beena time after Christie disappeared"

"Other than a big-time politico," Dix said, "what else is Thoe of infor, refining, distributing, had his fingers in every slice of the pipeline pie Like Chappy told you, he’s invested broadly now

"When he got out of the oil business in the early nineties, he went big into private equities It wasn’t all that risky for him because he knehole lot of powerful financial people who probably owed hi with his high-roller cronies The SEC has wanted to chat with hiotten past his phalanx of lawyers yet The lawyers plow the IRS under every couple of years too, when they have the gall to audit him

"Recently he’s expressed an interest in an ambassadorship, not to Chad or Slovenia, but abucks on the national political level On the surface he’s like any nu for a payoff froave therin

Ruth finally threw popcorn at hi is, Thomas Pallack speaks to his parents"

Sherlock said, "That’s a big cri dead, more than thirty years dead"

CHAPTER 20

Everyone stared at Savich Dix said slowly, "You’re telling uy believes in spirits? Believes he actually speaks to theent Cheney Stone in San Francisco, and Pallack’s name appeared on a client list of a psychic o Pallack has been seeing one since his parents’ deaths in 1977, every Wednesday and Saturday I assu, isn’t it?"

Dix said, "Why would anyone do that?" Savich said, "Well, that info led to soreat deal Pallack’s parents were brutally murdered in their Southampton estate on February 17, 1977"

Ruth sat forward, hands on her knees "Whoa--bad ending That uess" Dix asked, "Was the ht?"

"Yes, but not by the local cops It was their forty-one-year-old son, Thoators to find him They nailed hihbor’s house Courtney James is his name; he’s in Attica for life James was a trust-fund baby, lots of old money After James’s parents retired to Italy, he lived alone in the faed his father’s banks, coular as clockwork No one had a bad word to say about hiators found the knife he’d used on the Pallacks in the basement Their dried blood was on it--at least it was their blood type, no DNA then Ruan to churn that he’d killed some other people before the Pallacks, that he was a serial murderer, and they were just his latest victims