Mobifone Book Archive

Montalbano opened the drawer at the bedside desk with the phone, doubtless the aspect of the mattress Luparello frequently slept on. 3 condoms, a pen, a white notepad. He gave a commence while he observed the pistol, a 7. sixty five, on the very again of the drawer, loaded. The drawer to the opposite bedside desk was once empty. beginning the left-hand door of the armoire, he observed men’s fits. within the best drawer, a blouse, 3 units of briefs, a few handkerchiefs, a T-shirt. He checked the briefs: the signora was once correct, the label used to be inside of and within the again. within the backside drawer, a couple of loafers and 2 slippers. The armoire’s center door was once coated by means of a reflect that mirrored the mattress. That part was once divided into 3 cabinets: the topmost and heart cabinets contained, mixed in, hats, Italian and overseas magazines whose universal denominator used to be pornography, a vibrator, sheets and pillowcases. at the backside shelf have been 3 woman wigs on their respective stands—one brown, one blond, one purple. probably they have been a part of the engineer’s erotic video games. the most important shock, notwithstanding, got here whilst he opened the right-hand door: women’s clothes, very based, on coat hangers. there have been additionally pairs of denims and a few blouses. In a drawer, minuscule panties yet no bras. the opposite used to be empty. As he leaned ahead to higher investigate cross-check this moment drawer, Montalbano understood what it was once that had so stunned him: now not the sight of the female clothing however the smell that emanated from them, the exact same he had smelled, merely extra vaguely, on the outdated manufacturing facility, the instant he’d opened the leather-based purse. there has been not anything else to determine. simply to be thorough, he bent all the way down to glance lower than the furnishings. A tie were wrapped round one of many rear toes of the mattress. He picked it up, remembering that Luparello were came upon together with his blouse collar unbuttoned. He took the images out of his pocket and made up our minds that the tie, for its colour, could have long gone particularly good with the swimsuit the engineer was once donning on the time of his loss of life. At headquarters he came upon Germanà and Galluzzo in a nation of agitation. “Where’s the sergeant? ” “Fazio’s with the others at a filling station, the single so as to Marinella. there has been a few taking pictures there. ” “I’ll pass there straight away. Did something come for me? ” “Yes, a package deal from Jacomuzzi. ” He opened it. It was once the necklace. He wrapped it again up. “Germanà, you return with me to this filling station. You’ll drop me off there and proceed directly to Montelusa in my automobile. I’ll inform you what highway to take. ” He went into his place of work, phoned Rizzo, instructed him the necklace used to be on its means with one in every of his males, and extra that he should still give up the fee for ten million lire to the agent. As they have been heading towards the positioning of the capturing, the inspector defined to Germanà that he must never flip the package deal over to Rizzo earlier than he had the register his pocket and that he used to be to take this check—he gave him the address—to Saro Montaperto, advising him to funds it once the financial institution opened, at 8 o’clock the next morning.