P. Parrish - Paint It Black
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- Название:Paint It Black
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Louis was staring at the gashes on the bloated left hand. He could see an indentation on the ring finger where Vince Carissimi had apparently cut off a wedding band.
“You match the knife yet on Tatum?” Wainwright asked, from behind Louis.
“Nope,” Vince answered. “I thought at first it was one of your garden-variety kitchen Henckels. Found a butcher knife in my catalog with the same twelve-inch blade. But Tatum’s wounds indicate the blade has an upward curve to it. It looks like these wounds are similar.”
“So it’s not your run-of-the-mill switchblade or pocketknife?” Louis asked.
Vince shook his head. “Not even close.”
Wainwright sighed. “Shit. Well, keep looking.”
Louis’s eyes traveled the body, coming to rest on the wound on the thigh. “Do you know what gauge shotgun he used?” he asked.
“The shooter used blanks,” Vince said.
Louis felt Wainwright come up behind him. “Blanks?” he said. “Damn. It looks like a real gunshot.”
“The explosion of gases leaves a wound just like pellets,” Vince said. “Tatum was the same, by the way. No pellets. Just the hole.”
“Why the hell would he use blanks?” Wainwright murmured.
“Maybe he just wanted to disable him first,” Louis offered.
Wainwright looked at him and nodded.
Vince was slicing open a thin membrane in the chest. “Oh, by the way, I found something else strange. He had minute traces of paint on him. In the pores on the neck and face.”
“Paint?” Wainwright said, blinking. “What kind of paint?”
“I don’t know. It was black.”
“New? Old?”
Vince shrugged. “Hard to say. There wasn’t much, but it could have washed off. You want me to send it out?”
Wainwright nodded, lost in thought. Louis was looking again at the corpse. If there was black paint on the mutilated, mottled body he sure couldn’t see it.
“Did Tatum have paint on him?” Louis asked.
Vince’s blue eyes met his. “Not a trace.”
“You’re sure?” Wainwright asked.
“Of course I’m sure. After I found the paint on this one, I went back and checked. No paint on Tatum.”
Wainwright shook his head. “Damn.”
Vince snapped off his gloves. “Well, I’m done here. You guys wanna go for coffee and bagels?”
“That’s it?” Louis asked.
“Oh, no,” Vince said, taking off his scrub shirt. He was wearing a gaudy Hawaiian shirt beneath. “Octavius runs the gut.”
They followed Vince Carissimi out into the hall. The large black man was still there, reading a paperback copy of Edith Hamilton’s The Greek Way .
“He’s all yours, Octo,” Vince said. “Don’t forget to tie off the subclavian. I don’t want to get a call from some pissed-off mortuary jockey in Ohio.”
The man grunted and went into the autopsy room. Vince saw Louis watching him.
“Octavius is the diener,” Vince explained.
“What’s a diener?” Louis asked.
“It’s a German word that means servant, but he’s really an assistant. Octo’s been here forever. Sometimes I think he knows more about carving than I do. Experto crede. . trust one who has experience.” Vince turned to Wainwright. “So, breakfast or lunch?”
“Already ate, thanks,” Wainwright said. “You go if you want, Kincaid.”
Louis shook his head.
Vince looked disappointed. “Well, next time you make it over to the mainland, my treat.” He held out a hand to Louis. “Good to meet you.” The ME disappeared, trailing Hendrix after him.
“Strange guy,” Louis said.
“Vince knows his stuff,” Wainwright said. “Likes to try to impress you though, with the Latin shit.”
Louis looked up at the sign above the door. “ Mortui vivos docent ,” he read.
“ ‘The dead teach the living,’ ” Wainwright said. “Come on, let’s get out of here.”
They walked out into the bright sunshine toward the parking lot. It was about seventy-five and the breeze had a briny tang even though they were miles from any water. Louis pulled the air deep into his lungs, trying to clear his head of the smells from inside. He watched a small airplane lift off from nearby Page Field and hover like a balsa glider until it disappeared into the clouds.
“You need a ride?” Wainwright asked.
“No, thanks. I borrowed Sam Dodie’s car,” Louis said.
“Nice folks, the Dodies,” Wainwright said. “I met ’em at a Rotary party.”
“Yeah,” Louis said with a slight smile. “I’ve been staying with them.”
“How’s your ribs, by the way?”
“I’m okay.”
“I should have warned you about Levon,” Wainwright said. “He’s got a history of drug abuse. From the looks of it, I’d guess he was on something yesterday. Maybe PCP. Like I said, you’re lucky he didn’t kill you.”
Louis slipped on his sunglasses. “You’re still convinced he killed Tatum?”
Wainwright nodded. “Like I said, he’s got a history.”
“Have you known Levon to ever carry a knife?”
“He had a switchblade on him last time we arrested him.”
“But these wounds aren’t from a switchblade.”
“He could’ve used a different one.”
“But why Anthony Quick? Levon has no motive for that.”
Wainwright hesitated. “Like I said, Levon has a history. He’s got some mental problems. And the MO was the same.”
“Except for the paint.”
Wainwright looked at Louis. “Maybe the paint means nothing. Maybe Quick painted his house or something before he got here.”
“His dossier said he sold software for Novel,” Louis said. “You ever know a computer geek who got his hands dirty?”
“Look, right now I don’t even know if these two murders are related. Right now, I gotta find Levon.”
“Any sign of him yet?”
“No,” Wainwright said. “We got an APB out, and I have someone watching Roberta’s house and the store. Levon stayed in a room in the back sometimes. But he’s not coming back.”
“So what’s your next move?” Louis asked.
Wainwright was looking out at the airstrip again. “I don’t know,” he said tightly.
For several seconds, they just stood in the warm sun, soaking it in. Wainwright seemed absorbed in watching the planes.
“I came here to retire,” Wainwright said softly.
Louis waited, sensing Wainwright wanted to say something more. But Wainwright just let out a deep breath.
“Well, I gotta get back,” he said, turning.
Louis watched Wainwright walk toward his cruiser. He noticed he had a subtle limp.
Wainwright stopped and turned suddenly. “Hey, Kincaid,” he called. “I just thought of something. I think I know where Anthony Quick was killed. Wanna come along?”
Chapter Nine
He expected pine trees, mossy paths, and maybe a deer or two. That’s what preserves looked like in Michigan. But he was in Florida now, where the earth smelled of rotting things and the spindly trees were packed dense, their branches twisting up to the sun like tortured fingers, their roots curving down into the water like inverted rib cages. Mangrove trees, Wainwright called them, as they drove past a sign that said MATLACHA NATURE PRESERVE. They didn’t look like trees to Louis. They looked like skeletons frozen in the black water.
The reserve was on the southern tip of Sereno Key, where the neat little neighborhoods ended and the land trickled off to melt into the brackish water. The water here was different than over on the bay. There, out in the open, it caught the sun and was moved by the tides and the wake of human activity. Here, it was dark, still, and primordial, frosted with a thin layer of algae.
Louis looked out over the mangroves. “There’s no way someone could get through those trees and wade out to the water,” he said. “Where do you think he threw him in?”
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