The new district attorney, who had held office since November, was a
big, good-natured, tolerant man, who looked younger than his 35 years
because of his freckles and his always rumpled mop of sandy hair. But
those who sought to take advantage of his good nature in the courtroom
found themselves up against as keen a lawyer and prosecutor as could be
found in the whole state, or even in the Middle West.
"Well, boy!" he greeted Dundee genially but with an undertone of
solemnity in his rich, jury-swaying baritone. "Looks like we've got a
sensational murder on our hands. It's not every day Hamilton can rate a
headline like 'BROADWAY BELLE MURDERED AT BRIDGE'--to quote a Chicago
paper.... But I'm afraid there's not enough mystery in it to suit your
tastes."
Dundee grinned wryly. "I've been pretty down in the mouth all morning
because there's a little too much mystery, chief."
"Fairly open-and-shut, isn't it?" Sanderson asked, obviously surprised.
"New York gets too hot for this Selim baby--probably mixed up with some
racketeer, racketeers being the favorite boy-friends of 'Broadway
belles', if one can believe the tabloids. Lois Dunlap offers her a job
to organize a Little Theater in Hamilton--which the fair Nita would
certainly have described as a hick town and which she wouldn't have been
found dead in if she could have helped it--" and the district attorney
grinned at his own witticism, "--but Broadway Nita jumps at it.
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