"About that one I want to know everything," Bill said. "Where she came from, what she does, who pays her rent, what her friends think of her, who she - "
"O. K., Loot," Mullins said. "I get it."
"Specifically," Bill told him, "where she was a little after noon today, and how long she stayed there. And whether she was going to be or thought she was going to be, the next Mrs. Tony Mott."
"O. K., Loot," Mullins said. "We'll turn her inside out." He considered this. "Which would be a pity," he added. "On account of her outside - "
"Right," Weigand said. "I noticed, Sergeant."
(from Murder Is Served, by Richard and Frances Lockridge)
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