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Ben did not respond, but sat staring lizard-eyed at the shattered remains of his glorious musical instrument.
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Sounds like something a woman would do.
—You think so? said Ben. What woman would do that to me? I don’t know any women in Nice.
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—Hey, lover man, where’s my breakfast? said Monique, tousling Ben’s hair.
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I am beleaguered by duplicity.
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Ben was cheered to see Monique in good spirits again.
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Zoë’s divorce lawyer, Arno Aghajanian (“Double A” to his friends), sat at his desk in Los Angeles reading a copy of the Hollywood Intelligencer.
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—Can you handle a threesome? said Isabella.
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—Christ all mighty, said Ben to himself as he watched Isabella and Leona enter the bank. Those are some extraordinary examples of female flesh.
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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.
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Dan Arris sat in Chez Colette enjoying a roulade of veal stuffed with root vegetables. He was not a happy man.
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She was wearing a robe, but her hip movement sent an ancient message.
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Gringovitch sat on the big leather chair in Olivia’s suite. Before him on a coffee table were the nude sketches he’d made of her earlier that day.
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Mulvihill suspected, but could not prove, that the connection to all three murders and the three men was a painting
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Zoë was stunning in a designer gown so revealing and form-fitting that only static electricity could keep it on her body.
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Jack Krackenthorpe, Director-General of MI-5, sat alone drinking tea in Lee Ho Fook, a third-rate Chinese restaurant in Soho a mile from his Curzon Street office.
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Anatoly Gringovitch sat in the police car returning him to the Opera House.
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Ben’s tactic for diverting Monique’s thoughts from the encounter with Zoë and the horrific episode in his dressing room was to dance, dance, dance.
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The Gringovitch family was gathered in the lobby of the hotel. The boys sat on the floor using their packs as back supports. Francesca Gringovitch sat on a chair with the remaining luggage in front of her.
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The logic of the impoverished was amazing. Like Rita telling me I owed her fifty cents for a token after she stole five million yen from me.
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Ben left the airport and headed toward downtown Nice, his stomach was in a knot.
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It was that awkward time when one didn’t know if the night’s lover wanted to see you again.
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Ben considered his options in the taxi to Charles De Gaulle airport.
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The pawnbroker sat behind bulletproof glass at the rear of the display area, a veritable potentate of hope and cash, exchanging expendable items for derisory cash.
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It was the first warm day of a late-arriving spring. Ben was sitting in his divorce lawyer’s office on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan.
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He finished the omelet and started in on the short stack. He drowned the cakes in syrup.
-Never can have enough syrup.
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Naked Lady? I know that from somewhere. Then he remembered. That's what they called those old 1930's and 40's Conn saxophones, Naked Ladies. How would Smith know that?
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