the last book I ever read (The Long-Legged Fly: A Lew Griffin Novel by James Sallis, excerpt two)

from The Long-Legged Fly: A Lew Griffin Novel by James Sallis:

Bobbie brought me another beer. Maybe she figured I needed it.

“At any rate,” Blackie went on, “it was to have been at the Municipal Auditorium, the eighteenth of August, at eight p.m. She was coming in early that morning to speak to some student groups at Tulane and Loyola. She did that wherever she went. Spoke to students, I mean.”