Bob Bailey
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And the address?
Yeah?
Yeah.
Donato couldn't collect.
Gracie, you're a doll.
Item seven, two bucks and a half for a taxi to the address far out on Sunset Avenue.
It turned out to be an old ramshackle roaming house in a pretty lousy neighborhood.
When did he leave?
I can't say that I blame him.
Have you any idea where he might have gone?
The cops will want him for a lot more than your rent, lady.
Murder.
And I made another phone call to police headquarters.
I talked with Sergeant Jimmy Maxwell on homicide.
Only I listened more than I talked.
The D stands for Donato, the X for Xavier.
Xavier, if you want to say it that way.
He just left the place where he was living, so he's probably a thousand miles away, but... Xavier.
Of course, and right under my nose.
Maybe I should have told him more, everything I knew, but I didn't want to have to wait for the police or anybody else.