CHAPTER 4He had wanted to continue his interrogation, had had every intention of mentioning the missing teen-ager in order to pressure Mrs. Baskoulos into admitting the identity of the swindler. But the blonde had walked out on him; he couldn’t very well follow her into her bedroom and apply third-degree methods. So he had departed from the Baskoulos apartment in a black mood.
The woman’s story had been preposterous. The statements her husband had made in Bob Stolz’s office the evening before were sufficient to establish the strained situation in the Baskoulos ménage; obviously she had not been about to spend all her available funds to buy an old masterpiece to present to him as a gesture of reconciliation.
Anyhow, if she had ever wished to make such a purchase in anonymity, nothing woul
