Finchby’s old business records?
The legal stuff presumably. He’s not going to keep hard copies of the kind of dealings he has…
… is he?
I pick up a ledger at random, checking the title. Winsbury Mill Inc. Purchase Ledger Y/E Dec ‘83
Not even cleaned the place out from the previous owners…
I enter the second room more easily. The door hinges are corroded, squeaking a protest as I enter. It’s a paint store: shelves stacked with tins and cans, brushes, bottles of cleaner and solvent, stepladders leaning against the wall. The walls run with damp and many of the tins are rusty or leaking.
As I back out, Klempner’s with me again. “She’s not down that way.”
“Only one door left, then.”
It’s solid. Nothing like the previous rotting remnants of a bygone time, this is new: bolts drawn at top
