Santa Monica, California – The newsIt had just gone seven in the morning when two shady characters, one tall and thin and one much shorter and bigger, were wandering nervously around outside the newsagent’s, Marck's Brentwood Newsstand on San Vicente Boulevard, just outside Santa Monica. Their shiny new bright red Corvette was parked right in front of the entrance and some curious youngsters were excitedly observing it.
"Well? What is there to look at?” snapped the fat man. "Haven’t you ever seen a car?" and he made as if to go in their direction. The youngsters, caught unawares by the sudden and decidedly exaggerated reaction of the big man, decided it was best not to remain there any longer and scampered away.
"Oh, leave them be, no?" exclaimed the thin man. "Weren’t you just as passio
