Bass phoned Lucille at the paper.
The call skipped the receptionist and went directly to Lucille. “Have anything on the baseball player?” she asked the second she heard Bass’s voice.
“No,” Bass replied. “I’ve been working on my own case.”
“As far as this paper is concerned, your case is less than a column inch.”
“I don’t care about that,” Bass said. “I was wondering if you could check your archives. See if your paper has done a*********s in the past on a couple of local artists.”
“Have you thought of going online and doing it yourself?”
“Oh sure, you know how I love to do that,” Bass replied sarcastically. Then he added in a more serious tone, “I’m not at my desk. And I would appreciate whatever you’ve got.”
He gave Lucille three names: Trevor, Sandover, and the female welder, Jodi
