The two detectives met at 10 AM at MCC the next morning, and Isaac Vadim had been brought out to meet them in one of the interrogation rooms. Vadim was showing the strains of incarceration and seemed as if he had not gotten much sleep. Like Javits, he was suspicious and taciturn at first. He eased up somewhat after he found they had already talked to Birnbaum and Javits.
“So, Javits told me he wasn’t exactly jumping up and down for joy when you rented out the brownstone.” Tommy sank back in the metal chair as Orrin switched on the recorder. “What was it like the first night when you went out there?”
“I asked the cabbie to stay there until I was inside, and I gave him an extra ten bucks to come back when I called him.” Isaac’s chestnut eyes brimmed with energy, despite his disheveled appe
