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“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
― Dashiell Hammett
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The sponge had gone missing
there was a trail of what looked like dried blood
leading from the sink to the trash
but it could have been ketchup
there was evidence of burger eating still scattered across the kitchen surfaces
someone hadn’t cleaned up after themselves
perhaps they expected Sudsy to do it
but he was busy doing a very different kind of clean up job
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“When a man’s partner is killed he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it…
…when one of your organization gets killed it’s bad business to let the killer get away with it.”
― Dashiell Hammett
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