Chapter 2
A building respectful, nothing simple and not complicated either. Kaska found the university area five. Boileau Street unlike anything that normal street of Paris, cars parked along the sidewalk, a one-way westbound, people, three shops and a metro within three minutes. He knocked three times at the door of the janitor, a woman still asleep opened later. An airhead, maybe nice, maybe bad, his hair plastered, the nightgown-like ball gown, the English dolls on the dresser, in fact, a small apartment into a museum on the eternity souvenir trinkets, from Nice to Cannes in the Fifties, Rosas in Barcelona in the sixties, Grande-Motte at Well-de-Dome in the seventies, yet America in eighty and ninety Yemen. A real love story with souvenir sellers of the whole earth .- Mrs Kriten Umea. He showed his card when officialdom, the woman was very surprised, "replied the sixth without waiting .- .- Thanks! Not a word more! Frank left her in her excitement. She saw a man in the history of drug or morals, but Mr. n'entreprit nothing equal to his, he slipped away quickly toward the elevator. Two minutes later it rang. But no one spoke. Five minutes he found again the elevator. Down the janitor had not moved, even with a neighbor palabras right back from her shopping .- You have the keys? He played the unflappable. The woman did not dare ask in whose pocket was the mandate, but rather returned to his apartment, returned a few moments later with the kit. - I believe what is not there, I just open yourself .- No! Thank you, no need. Therefore he stretched out his hand, the woman did not hesitate .- It's been more than it is? Just a quick glance towards his neighbor. There and Back .- Yes! For three years .- Good! Countries and their rent? - Yes, every month .- Thanks! In the elevator He tore a gang protects plastic, putting on his hands, was found later outside the door. After the promiscuity of the place, Frank grabbed the key and opened it. He expected a preamble to contemplate his first corpse but a living rock tore the atmosphere. In fact an old furniture of the nineteenth century covered a good part of the room, plus a large leather armchair dark brown lurked between the door of the bedroom and kitchen area, there were not so great place to the body of a diva. The man came in, hurry to the kitchen, checking the cleanliness of the sink, opened the fridge, went to the freezer and still nothing! Invariably concentrated, he walked into the room, a room tidy, no mess and no corpse, then he reached the bathroom and finally discovered the torso of an adult of fifty years down in the bathtub. Wicks island, black and gray water beyond. A reddish liquid, soon black, impenetrable, was resting in the shade of a life destroys the heart of a repugnant and vile pot. The canvas of the painter of the absolute ugliness and disgust. The jolt social life in less blood and spread to the four corners of the room. Frank never had to do with this kind of talk, he remembered some morbid photographs distributed to the school of crime, but that was the subject lot, there remained not so very long face sets, quickly left the room, even the apartment, borrowed the stairs, climbed to the next floor and finally gave way. Fifteen minutes later he received the national police at the foot of the stairs. This section was accompanied by the concierge, but it had nothing to do there, he asked him to return to the ground floor as quickly as possible. A captain then penetrated into the cabinet, began the tour and returned a minute later beheaded mine .- Call the special section! The men obeyed. Meanwhile the special section, the master allowed himself to turn to Frank, asking the crucial question and the question useless .- Why are you here? - For the same reason as you! But Frank ended there. The officer staff relied good underling. He began his career at Le Mans, then down to Cannes, became noncommissioned officer in Noumea, an officer in Mulhouse, received the rank of captain in Nantes. For evidence to the contrary, his kids were soon complete their studies, leaving his wife five years earlier for a legionnaire in retirement, so he must wait another three years to finally be free and quit his job to his retirement, then what could make a French agent in a rental property in the capital but little interested. While he remained calm, but melancholy sometimes chasing her eyes fell, fell asleep, he had seen worse during the search of the Butcher of Le Cannet, but tried to not care, he was not taking medication, was reluctant to visit a psychiatrist and still the only evils improper speaking softly in his ear was still impetuous counsel to his wife when she unpacked the bill of divorce. An underling plus equals two, he thought often, and Frank in these cases could help in any way. The crime landed an hour late. The error was the captain of their property have announced a rotting corpse in the bathtub. As there was no hurry Section neighborhood took his time, his master sent two agents with time delay and two other officers with two hours late, and besides he was still the coroner and ambulance. They came out of the elevator in the company of the concierge, who was escorted by the latter an intern Constable directly on the ground floor. Two giants of one meter ninety constantly repeating what a mess the gendarmerie could well have slipped. They spoke of fingerprint evidence and cleaned displaced by these agents .- You touch anything? Hummed the first. Talk about it! Certainly at that time were not always attracted a fly with honey, but the three policemen and Kaska remained in the stairwell during this interval, and long enough to let the captain be stripped of fifty euro bridge by one of his vassals. Almost nothing to be ashamed, especially a good excuse for the master plan of its irreducible in the future of hot nights posted in front of the Embassy of the United States. But at last! Both mushrooms entered without waiting in the apartment, the first exit two minutes later and the second preferred honor to shame and beg for help to the medical examiner via his laptop. Then the men had to wait half an hour, and as a policeman came down on the ground floor, the first officer replaced him willingly bridge. On the card game, the second agent is allowed to step back on the case because he waited all this time hanging in the window the kitchen and watch the avenue to hear the sound of the ambulance arrived. A challenging task and especially a recurring work, because man in his heart is allowed to think that he and he alone, at this moment is the case, worked .- The medical examiner arrived! Upset the second. Three minutes later a doctor, accompanied by a policeman, came out of the elevator. A small frozen fries and accompanied by his mistress. So a nurse's aide. Man does not lag, it's turned and walked quickly toward the bathroom. Hence, during which time the two detectives and criminologists began to rummage through the cupboards. The first began to align the blades next to the kitchen sink, while the other shook the paperback books to find clues or banknotes. Early during this time, stood idly by. Frank, meanwhile, went down to the ground floor and found the concierge. Outside, the weather continued to be sullen and in the heat intensified, and yet the officer ruled in favor of a value courteous .- I can ask you for a coffee. The neighbor had to go home to introduce her frozen in his freezer, but the gossip is pressed, Now she came back and appeared dressed as a corridor. Suddenly, the good soul of the concierge springs from his heart and this little lady with a very nice appearance invited them very nicely. Black coffee and a slice of puff pastry waiting for this blessed public. Frank actually tried this cozy lounge, this square table with solid wood frames and surely a family decimated by the weather. A nice little apartment with street view, almost like a tea Irish .- I will reassure you, we just found a body in the apartment, but not that of Umea Kriten miss. An attack selfish in the curriculum small ladies who were given the good god no concessions. But even if the neighbor had to have the munchies, she stopped short of food. A little skinny grandmother, widow recess and retired for nearly ten years. Mouth open to every current of air, this time - it she gaped. - He is a man between forty and fifty years. You know? They looked at each other briefly. The little skinny said .- Umea not uncommon for young men. In the building, the fourth neighbor is forty eight years, but I do not think it's him, I saw him this morning out to make this his work .- I do not think! Franck replied. The concierge did not always caused, she sought the possible invisible man in his memory. The spy who loved Umea, the suspect or other providential enemy of the republic. Short for once she could climb the steps of the courthouse on the island of the city and surrounded by photographers, she thundered frankly to find the loophole. But for now still nothing came. The agent should resume with the meager .- How do you explain his absence to three years? - We're just used to it. This apartment has always been popular by models. They arrive in Paris, rented a small apartment, they go to London, to New - York or Los Angeles, they think they still need the apartment, but returned after five years and make the apartment. The basis of this annotation remained plausible. Franck could believe it or just understand, but the sauce lacked flavor frankly .- Any examples? - Yes all! - All agree! But not all in the same apartment. And you hear, for now it's the only example that you met. And now, whether Umea became famous? It is the question I ask myself. Me for now I've never seen the cover of a magazine. The woman did not answer. The concierge was waking up. - She may be returned to Greece! Frank finished his coffee, he heard a noise in the lobby. May - be an uproar ambulance. He had to leave them .- We shall see! In the meantime, thank you for coffee. If you have additional information to contribute to the survey, please contact us. Besides, I think that a colleague will listen to you later. In the eighth, animation took on the appearance of fairgrounds, forensic science has finally arrived. Ten, perhaps twelve officers atmosphere. Photographs and fingerprint searches, routine. At the center, the Chief Inspector settled administrative steps of the ambulance. A large man, fat rather rather tired, hungry and thirsty again. A Belgian style mustache or North Station, may - be to the benefit of a monocle, a gauge twenty-eight in the bodice, and an electricity bill unpaid holiday in Brittany. Perhaps his home country. Shoulders cheered by the importance of his rank, he felt a new presence in his back, then turned .- You are the agent. You've found the body. A calm voice, the laziness of the mind. A brain finally took root in the background. - Absolutely .- Come on! The man finished the pamphlet, the feather and the sheet stretched macerated. At the other end paramedics wore velvet hat and round the dead it must be said, wore long faces. - Tell - me, you're allowed to smoke a cigarette in the lounge? The man wrinkled his brow as a bearded man in the trenches of Verdun. The war of attrition, the paper buried beneath a ton of dust, ammunition carts in poorly lit galleries, rocket launchers cleaned with a toothbrush, snuff reported on a single sheet statement, letters written with bloody hands and showers sparingly by the seasons and rainfall. A fairy tale, the prosecutor's office to debate an armistice and a man certainly tired, but fortunately for retirement in less than three years .- No it's not me. I did not touch anything, except the door of the bathroom .- It was closed? - Yes! The head and noted he did not want to know more. An agent could have taken place in his absence in the house a corpse, for now he did not care, because his main concern remained in the absence of known evidence. In fact, according to the code of ethics of the criminal, once a corpse is found, if the murderer is discovered after three hours we can conclude a degree murder if the killer is discovered, however, less than two weeks after the facts we can conclude that a premeditated murder, cons and if the murderer is not found after two weeks of investigations, we can conclude an unsolved murder and an unsolved murder, for investigators concerned this event meant a reprieve for some all relevant stakeholders within the section. So to conclude, the man challenged each time, got involved with a windscreen of fate and velvet chair mahogany, lifts, life without fault, yet roaring of the big bazaar Tower of money, so more than a straight line and the last man could become sub-prefect or prefect or even under the pretext, because even if he dreamed, each finding irrational throughout his life turned into censure or reprimand, and if it was not his mind at an unsolved murder, that came then, and often the highest level of its hierarchy, and each stroke of the masses like a pistol shot to his temple is in or is in his lap, as luck ran every time the viewfinder. As agreed, Frank did not touch anything, the Chief Inspector asked him to look elsewhere even to leave the field open to forensic science. He nevertheless offered a meeting in a few days at the office or at the pub, the place did not matter. Although a satisfactory response to Kaska, for he began politely bored. The evidence, given the wealth of the agents, does not show the open and the body did not reveal his next few minutes, so he felt kindly thought, even unnecessary. An hour later he found himself, tie clogged clarified and back, waiting outside the office of his superior. It was Eva who had assumed an appointment. Old Greg he opened the door at a quarter to four, then ten minutes before the collapse. A small Italian village square, the smell of coffee, the family on the wall and a pyramid of plastic on the desktop .- While this case? My colleagues on the criminal warned me that you have discovered a body .- Yes! A man between forty and fifty years, long dead. I know no more. The man already picked up his laptop, pulled on his sleeve. A grave face, because nothing paranormal or not dragged into unnecessary surface .- Do not worry! Tomorrow you'll learn! You leave the criminal police do their job, but you are still on the move. The girl is still missing, so find one. The chief did not know that Frank was just beginning his career, so he had another twenty eight years to take .- How do I? - Simple, tomorrow you inquire among the missing, you will see the Embassy Greece, and so on, the goal is to fill up of pages in your file. Included! This annotation Franck struggled to find themselves without parents, so alone in the world. After he kept his place, left the place. That evening he ate a soup of squash before the show "Star Academy", even telephoned the chain to prevent the elimination of Emma. He fell asleep remembering the dead still image at the bottom of his bathtub.
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