Bill Crider - Dan Rhodes 08 - Winning Can Be Murder - Plot & Excerpts
he had told Rhodes once. “The one Clyde Ballinger bought out. But maybe not. They might be older than that.”No matter how old they were, they were bent and scratched, with legs that were just slightly out of line so that not a single chair sat quite level on the floor.The floor itself wasn’t exactly level, either. It was rough, unfinished concrete, covered with dark stains that Rhodes had never been able to identify, which he figured was just as well, considering what Hack had told him of the history of the room. Rhodes never knew how much of what Hack said was true, though he’d heard similar stories about some of his predecessors for most of his life.“Old Sheriff Thomason, now,” Hack had said, “he was the one that they used to call ‘Delco.’ That was ’cause he’d take a prisoner in that little back room and whack ’em with a ba’try cable till they told him what he wanted to know. They say he could get a confession out of a man faster than a minnow can swim a dipper.“That woulda been when you were just a young fella, I guess. Couldn’t get away with anything like that these days, even if it did save a lot of hard investigatin’.
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