Longarm #430 - Longarm and the Deadly Sisters

Informationen zum Autor Tabor Evans Klappentext Longarm's seeing double… The Olsen sisters are as beautiful as they are deadly. Hilda and Pearl were twin mistresses to Senator Taft Baker of Sacramento! California! but now the polygamous politician has been shot to death in his bed-and the sisters are nowhere to be found. Word is! they've fled to Denver! where it's up to Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long to bring the diabolical duo to justice-on the double! While the sisters may be identical in appearance! they turn out to be as different as night and day when it comes to temperament. Evil twin Pearl aims to blast Longarm with both barrels! while Hilda is more interested in doubling his pleasure. This time the lawman will have to think twice before making his move-or the Olsen twins may just be the death of him… THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP Chapter 1 Deputy Marshal Custis Long turned his collar up against the driving snow as he made his way up Colfax Avenue toward the Federal Building. Denver’s sidewalks had not yet been shoveled and the footing was treacherous as workers tried to get to their offices and businesses. Just up ahead of him, a stout woman bundled up in a heavy woolen coat stepped on a patch of ice and fell hard. Longarm, trying not to fall himself, hurried up to assist the woman. “Are you hurt?” he asked with genuine concern as he knelt by her side. “Hell yes, I’m hurt! I busted my ass.” The woman was in her fifties, red-faced from the cold, but she was smiling. “Say, handsome, you want to give this fat lady a hand?” “Sure,” Longarm replied, helping her to her feet. “Are you sure that you’re all right?” “To be perfectly honest, only my pride is injured,” she admitted. “I guess that being fat and having more padding does have a few advantages while trying to walk on this ice.” “I hope you make it to wherever you’re going without another hard fall.” “Not likely, but we all have to get to work even in this horrible winter weather, don’t we?” “Sure do.” “Say, you look familiar.” She turned her head first one way and then the other like a parrot. “Why, you’re the one that they call Longarm! You’re a famous United States marshal!” “I am.” She gave him a good look from the top of his flat, snuff-brown hat to the toes of his overshoes, lingering for a moment on his crotch. “Well, young man, I’ll bet that’s not the only thing long about you!” Longarm’s jaw dropped and as he watched her scuttle down the icy sidewalk, he began to laugh. Once inside the building he stomped the snow off his overshoes and hung his coat on a line of hooks provided for government employees as well as the public. Clancy O’Dell was sipping his usual cup of bracing hot coffee. The man reminded Longarm of a picture he’d seen of a walrus with his bushy mustache and big, corpulent body. “Morning, Clancy.” “Morning, Custis,” the man replied. “Real pisser of a storm, this one.” “That it is.” “I doubt that you fellas up there in the marshal’s office have much to do when the weather gets this bad.” “You’d be wrong about that,” Longarm replied. “Criminals are often smart enough to take advantage of bad weather.” The big guard nodded. “For a fact?” “Yep. Even the number of train robberies increases in bad weather.” Clancy mulled that over for a minute just as Longarm was about to climb the stairs to his second floor office. “Well, that doesn’t make much sense to me because they’d be leaving tracks in the snow easy enough for a lawman like you to follow.” “Good point,” Longarm agreed. “But most lawmen don’t like to go out in storms that can cover those tracks in a hurry.” “Oh,” Clancy said, “sure, I see your point there, Marshal Long. Yes, I do.” Longarm continued up the stairs to his office. Truth be known, he hated being cooped up in ...

Product details

• Authors: Tabor Evans
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9780515154849
• ISBN: 978-0-515-15484-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Longarm; Longarm; Longarm (Books)
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature