"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 022 - The Annhilist" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

Hardboiled Humbolt strode over to the body of the portly, bald man who had been shot to death and
demanded of Doc Savage, "Who is he?"

"}His name," the bronze man said, "was Leander Court."

"What was his business?" Hardboiled asked.

"He was a scientist and surgeon."

"How'd he hook up with you?"

The bronze man's flake-gold eyes seemed to acquire strange lights. "What do you mean?"

"How come he was wearing an identification tag asking that you be called if anything happened to him?"
boomed Hardboiled.

"That, I shall not answer," Doc Savage said.

Hardboiled glared. "Say, didn't that lecture I just gave you take effect? You cooperate with me, or else
you get in some trouble!"

He shook his sap down out of his sleeve.

THE medical examiner yelled, "You're making an unmitigated fool out of yourself, Hardboiled!"

Hardboiled scowled and growled, "I don't like the methods of Doc Savage and I don't give a damn who
knows it, and he's gonna answer my questions. There's some motive behind this killing, and I want to
know what it is. I want to know why the other seven were killed."

"I can assure you," Doc Savage told him, "that I have not the slightest idea why Leander Court was
killed, or the other seven, either."

"All right," snapped Hardboiled. "Now, why was he wearing that identification disk?"

Doc Savage ignored the question. "Just exactly what happened here?"

The medical examiner, who was embarrassed by the attitude which Hardboiled Humbolt had taken, said,
"The dead man, Leander Court, arrived about an hour ago, according to the reception girl. He said he
had an appointment with Janko Sultman, the president of the Association of Physical Health, and she
directed him to Sultman's office.

"He was in there some time. Then he began yelling stuff about not doing something, and demanding to be
let out. He broke the glass out of the door and climbed through. Then the man dead on the staircase
downstairs shot him."

"When did the man downstairs appear?" Doc Savage interjected.

"Shortly after Leander Court arrived," said the examiner. "It looks as if the man followed Court here."