“No.”
“Why not?”
“There are lots of reasons.”
“Name some.”
I said, “It stinks.”
“What does?”
“The whole business.”
“Why?”
I said, “Hale came to Los Angeles. He hired us to come to New Orleans and find Roberta Fenn. Why didn’t he get a New Orleans detective agency on the job?”
“Because he had confidence in us. We’d been recommended to him.”