"Donald E Westlake - Bank Shot" - читать интересную книгу автора (Westlake Donald E)

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"YES," Dortmunder said. "You can reserve all this, for yourself and your

family, for simply a ten-dollar deposit."

"My," said the lady. She was a pretty woman in her mid-thirties, small and

compact, and from the looks of this living room she kept a tight ship. The room

was cool and comfortable and neat, packaged with no individuality but a great

passion for cleanliness, like a new mobile home. The draperies flanking the

picture window were so straight, each fold so perfectly rounded and smooth,

that they didn't look like cloth at all but a clever plaster forgery. The picture they

framed showed a neat treeless lawn that drained away from the house, the neat

curving blacktop suburban street in spring sunshine, and a ranch-style house

across the way identical in every exterior detail to this one. 1 bet their drapes

aren't this neat, Dortmunder thought.

"Yes," he said, and gestured at the promo leaflets now scattered all over the

coffee table and the nearby floor. "You get the encyclopedia and the bookcase

and the Junior Wonder Science Library and its bookcase, and the globe, and

the five-year free use of research facilities at our gigantic modern research facility

at Butte, Montana, and-"

"We wouldn't have to go to Butte, Montana, would we?" She was one of

those neat, snug women who can still look pretty with their brows furrowed. Her