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homicide detective but recently had gone to work as an assistant to a high-profile celebrity.Los Angeles and environs were acrawl with poseurs and frauds who claimed association with the rich and famous. Yet even those who had been made cynical by this city of deception nevertheless believed what Ethan told them, or climbing rose,” he said, “will you answer a few questions about a customer you served earlier this afternoon?”“Is this police or Both.”“Oh, delicious. I love running a rose shop, but there’s more fragrance than excitement in it. Make your guess.”Because in Rowena he saw Hannah as she might have been at sixty, he spoke the name of the climbing rose that his lost wife had loved best: “Saint Joseph’s Coat.”Rowena seemed genuinely surprised and pleased. “That’s exactly right! You put Sherlock to shame.”“Now your half of the bargain,” Ethan said, leaning with both arms pretended that they did.[148] Hannah had said that people trusted him easily because combined in him were the quiet steely strength of Dirty Harry Callahan and the earnest innocence of Huck Finn. That, he had replied, was a movie he never wanted to see.Rowena, whether responding to the Harry-Huck of him or to other qualities, seemed to accept Ethan for who and what he claimed to be.“If I guess your favorite variety of
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