ended to any<br >ONE<br >T<br >he city was beginning to look deserted. Everybody who<br >could afford to go to Florida was in Florida. My mother<br >and father were in Florida, my brother Sam, the<br >surgeon, was in Florida, my cousin Melvyn, the lawyer, was in<br >Florida. Even the radio announcer who usually reads the local<br >weather was in Florida. I can remember a time when Melvyn<br >couldn t even read the time. I taught him. Now he was in<br >Florida, sitting by a swimming pool getting a tan all over his<br >hairy body while I, Benny Cooperman, was here in Grantham.<br >No matter how I examined it, I couldn t make it come out<br >looking fair. The coldest part of the winter, with starlings and<br >sparrows falling stiff from the trees, frost creeping under my<br >door and climbing the stairs two at a time, and I sat here,<br >waiting for a client to read my sign: "Benjamin Cooperman,<br >Licensed Private Investigator", and come in asking me to<br >solve the sudden disappearance of a long-lost rich uncle.<br >Nothing easier, in the middle of February: he s gone to<br >Florida.<br > From the window I could look down on St. Andrew<br >Street. The black pavement was chilled white, the frosty breath<br >of the manholes rose straight up. Not a drop of snow as far as<br >the eye could see; somehow that made it look even colder. I<br >triedto find the evidence for cold without snow, just to kill the<br ><br >
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