Mulrooney and Clarke sat in Mulrooney"s small office trying to avoid looking at the pustular face of a speed freak. Mulrooney noticed that Clarke had slid his chair as far away from the kid as he could get, probably because the kid smelled like infected feet.
“Stop picking at those scabs and place your hands on the desk, Slag,” Mulrooney barked. “You"re making them worse. And you"re making me sick!” The kid nervously complied.
Mulrooney was working a new angle. His hunch about a link between Dr. Connolly"s murder and the Jersey homicides had turned something up that morning. The knife Clarence Smolley had been killed with at his moment of ejaculation in the peep show was determined to have had a five inch blade with a serrated tip - like the one used on Connolly. Mulrooney was champing a
