The Men From the Boys

Закладка:The Men From the BoysEd LacyThis page formatted 2005 Blackmask Online.http://www.blackmask.comOneTwoThreeFourFiveSixFor Carla Jump-Jump who faithfully manned the duty watchesOneAs if I wasn't feeling bad enough it had to be one of those muggy New York City summer nights when your breath comes out melting. With my room on the ground floor and facing nothing, I lay in bed and sweated up the joint.The summer hadn't been too rough till the last few days, about the time my belly went on the rocks, when it became a Turkish bath. I stared up at the flaky ceiling and wished the 52 Grover Street Corporation would install air conditioning. Almost wished I was the house dick at a better hotel. No, I didn't wish that—I had a sweet deal at the Grover. With my police pension, the pocket money the hotel insisted was a salary, and my various side rackets, I was pulling down over…