Title:Fletch Won
Author(s): Gregory Mcdonald
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 272
Year: 1989
Format: EPUB
Language: English
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According to John Winters, publisher of the News-Tribune, Donald Habeck had requested a meeting with Mr. Winters for ten o’clock this morning to seek advice regarding the announcement of a charitable contribution Mr. Habeck intended to make in the city. “I did not personally know Donald Habeck,” John Winters said. “Naturally, all of us here in the News-Tribune family express our regrets to his family and friends.” ’ ”
“Wise old John Winters. Hold the sleazy lawyer at arm’s length even in his death. Amelia Shurcliffe said no one would dare declare Donald Habeck either a friend or an enemy. I guess she was right.”
“ ‘Mr. Habeck’s body was discovered by News-Tribune employee Pilar O’Brien while she was reporting to work. Police Lieutenant Francisco Gomez stated Mr. Habeck had been shot once in the head at apparently close range by a handgun of as yet undetermined caliber. The gun was not discovered at the scene of the crime.’ ”
“It was not a gangland slaying.”
“ ‘A graduate of the state system of education, and for years a visiting lecturer at the law school, Habeck…’ Blah, blah, blah. The report goes on to recount his most famous cases.” Barbara turned to an inside page. “At great length. Want me to read all that?”
“I went through all that yesterday. Even I know how to write obituaries.”
“I think son-in-law Tom Farliegh should be arrested, charged, convicted, and imprisoned immediately.” Barbara refolded the newspaper.
“You think Tom Farliegh murdered Habeck?”
“Tom Farliegh wrote that poem you read me last night. Isn’t that enough reason to imprison him? A man who writes a so-called poem like that shouldn’t be left loose to walk around in the streets.”
“It was not a gangland slaying.”
“Am I’m supposed to ask you why you keep saying that?”
“Are you asking?”
“I suppose so.”
“In order to drive into the parking lot of the News-Tribune you have to stop and identify yourself and state your purpose to the guard at the gate. But anyone can walk in and out. Habeck’s car was parked more toward the back of the lot than the front. I just can’t see professional gangsters stopping and saying anything to the guard at the gate, driving in, doing their dirty deed, then driving out again. I also can’t see a professional gangster parking his car outside the gate, walking in, popping Habeck in the head, and then walking out. Can you? A professional gangster would have hit Habeck somewhere else.”