'Was supposed to be a new life for her too,' I said.
'How'd Gino get involved.'
'New lives are hard,' Bibi said, 'aren't they. Anthony liked the deal. He figures he's doing Julius. He may as well do Gino. Only this time he got caught.'
'By Marty,' I said.
She looked surprised.
'How'd you know,' Bibi said.
'I'm a trained detective,' I said.
'And instead of blowing the whistle, Marty cut himself in.'
'Yes.'
'And he became Anthony's partner, which is how you met Anthony.'
'Yes.'
She spoke so easily and without affect that it was hard to realize that she was telling me most of what I'd been trying to find out since Julius and Shirley came to hire me.
'And Marty met Shirley,' I said.
'Marty knew Shirley?'
'Yeah,' I said.
'They used to meet regularly.'
'Was he sleeping with her?'
'I don't think so.'
'Lucky for her,' Bibi said.
'Was the deal more than just money?'
'I don't know, it might have been.'
'Was Marty happy being number two for Gino?'
'No. He said Gino was a pansy, and he hated taking orders from him.'
I looked at Hawk.
'He using Anthony as his inside man in Julius's outfit,' Hawk said.
'While he was funding a war chest,' I said.
Hawk nodded slowly.
'Could be,' he said.
'And then, as luck would have it,' I said, 'here came the Russians.'
'Marty a glasnost guy,' Hawk said.
'I don't know anything about Russians,' Bibi said.
'No reason you should,' I said to Bibi.
'And since they all in on this scam together, he takes up with Shirley,' Hawk said.
'To keep track of Anthony, like he used Anthony to keep track of Julius.'
'What I like is how Marty thought he was running Anthony,' I said.
'Only he wasn't. Anthony got enough money to get away from Shirley and he took off with Marty's war chest. And Marty's wife.'
'And Marty left with Shirley rolling around loose on the deck worried about her man,' Hawk said.
'So he had to kill her when she showed up out here,' I said.
'Because she knew what was going on, or enough of it to cause him trouble.'
'And gonna have to kill her,' Hawk said, nodding at Bibi, 'and he gonna have to kill Anthony.'
'If we're right,' I said.
'We might be,' Hawk said.
'Yeah,' I said.
'We're due.'
'I don't follow what you're saying,' Bibi said.
'Did he kill Shirley?'
'I like him for it,' I said.
'It makes some sense.'
