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...influence, a common enough crime, and the murmuring in the back continues. Lawyers walk to the hallway to confer with clients, the assistant district attorneys shuffle papers. The Commonwealth presents, its case, a fairly straightforward one; she couldn't walk the straight line, she couldn't touch her nose, she admitted she was drunk...
...park outside, a courtroom guard smokes. His girth betrays a career of inactivity; his eyes, nose, and mouth are adrift in an ocean of flesh. He says, "In that building, there are no secrets. If some judge is balling the secretary, everyone knows...
Even a non-smoker expects to find cigarette fumes in the hallways and conference rooms where the lawyers huddle with clients. The non-smoker expects to have the throat irritated and the nose burn. There is something unsettling about a courthouse that does not run on nicotene...
While the general public and the Surgeon General still hold their nose, savvy marketing men have taken note of this trend. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the successful Wine Spectator, plans to launch a quarterly magazine, Cigar Aficionado, and fill it with ratings, taste tests and snob appeal. What evidence does he have that it will succeed? "I'd like to tell you I did serious market research," he admits. "But I'm a cigar lover. I just decided to do it and hoped I could find 20,000 guys out there like...
...INNOCENT (Henry Holt; $18.95), her best-crafted alphabetical mystery yet, Sue Grafton sends p.i. Kinsey Millhone around the small city of Santa Teresa, Calif., as if her 1974 VW were the pencil in a follow-the-dots puzzle. Armed with matchless powers of observation ("I pictured . . . his nose pierced, a tiny ruby sitting on his nostril like a semiprecious booger") and a genius for the drudgery of detection, Kinsey follows a methodical trail to Isabelle's killer. Waiting in the dark, with her Heckler & Koch gun and her Winchester Silvertip bullets: that's a home where Kinsey calls the shots...