Mr. Mercedes
“Mercedes 1 On Monday, two days after Elizabeth Wharton’s death, Hodges is once more seated in DeMasio’s Italian Ristorante. The last time he was here, it was for lunch with his old partner. This time it’s dinner. His companions are Jerome Robinson and Janelle Patterson.
Janey compliments him on his suit, which already fits better even though he’s only lost a few pounds (and the Glock he’s wearing on his hip hardly shows at all). It’s the new hat Jerome likes, a brown fedora Janey bought Hodges on impulse that very day, and presented to him with some ceremony. Because he’s a private detective now, she said, and every private dick should have a fedora he can pull down to one eyebrow.
Jerome tries it on and gives it that exact tilt. “What do you think? Do I look like Bogie?”
“I hate to disappoint you,” Hodges says, “but Bogie was Caucasian.”
“So Caucasian he practically shimmered,”
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