Chapter 15
DETECTIVES Hahn and Koestler of the Robbery Squad were waiting for him when McCord got home. They were the two who had asked his opinion earlier about Gretchen Van Dorn and Egbert and Faith in the matter of the missing Van Dorn jewels. They wanted his opinion again, they said, coming out of the small glassed-in office as he rolled down the ramp to the basement garage.
McCord turned his car over to the sleepy-eyed night attendant and invited them up to his apartment for a drink. They said no, they didn’t think they’d better. They appreciated it and all that, but the fact of the matter was that they were in a spot, kind of, and maybe he could give them some advice, and they would certainly be obliged if he could, and in any case they didn’t think they’d better have liquor on the
