Fletch and the Widow Bradley
Gregory Mcdonald is the author of twenty-five books, including nine Fletch novels and three Flynn mysteries. He has twice won the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Novel, and was the first author to win for both a novel and its sequel. He lives in Tennessee.
Books by Gregory Mcdonald
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“H E L L O,” F L E T C H S A I D. “My name is Armistad.”
Behind his desk in his office, the manager of the Park Worth Hotel neither stood nor answered. His eyes telegraphed cold rejection of Fletch’s sweater, with no shirt under it, jeans and sneakers. Clearly, in the manager’s eyes, Fletch was not up to being a guest in the Park Worth Hotel, or a worthy candidate for a job. Dressed that way, he was not particularly welcome in the hotel lobby.
“Your name is Cavalier?” Fletch asked. A triangular piece of wood on the man’s desk said the visage you’d see upon raising your eyes a mite would be that of Jacques Cavalier. Besides the olive wood desk in the manager’s office was a large safe, opened, odd stacks of printouts, and a plaster cast of Donatello’s David perched on a bookshelf full of
The manager twitched his head as if recovering from a flick on the nose. “Yes?”
Fletch sat in one of the two semi-circular backed chairs. He held the wallet in his left hand. “As I said,” Fletch said, “my name is Armistad.” He pointed with the wallet to the manager’s telephone pad. “You might take that down.”
“You’re not a guest here,” the manager said.
“Geoffrey Armistad with G,” Fletch said. “One Three Four Nimble Drive, Santa Monica.”
