Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942Various
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Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942
Various
Detective and mystery stories -- Periodicals; Pulp literature
Ten minutes later, Delancy drove the get-away car out of the service
station. It was a gray sedan no longer. It was a brilliant blue job with
red wheels, and it carried a Texas license. Delancy was at the wheel and
the woman with the cold green eyes rode beside him. Two of Delancy's
gunmen crouched out of sight on the floor of the rear compartment while
two more had been crowded into the luggage compartment at the rear.
As the car rolled on toward Manhattan's northern boundary, the woman
with the green eyes switched on the radio on the dash. All of the cars
used on stick-up jobs were furnished with receivers capable of picking
up police calls, and out of the corner of his eye, Delancy saw that the
woman was twisting the dial down to the police band.
"What's the idea?" Delancy asked. He wasn't particularly pleasant to
this woman who rode with him, largely because she treated him like the
dirt under her feet.
"I simply want to check up," she said coldly. "I want to know just how
clean that job was."
"Clean?" Delancy fumed. "Listen, lady, we knocked off every damned guy
who could have told anything about us. And there wasn't a copper in
sight. Why, I haven't seen a bull in so long I'd have to look twice to
recognize one."
"That may be," she admitted, "but I want to make sure."
"Listen," Delancy said, now thoroughly angry, "how do you get that way?
Who the hell are you, checking up on me? You the Eye's moll?"
"Moll?" questioned the woman. "I do not understand."
"You don't understand!" Delancy scoffed. "Listen, babe, don't get
high-hat with me or I'll slap you down."
"You would not be so foolish," she said scornfully. "The Eye would tear
you into small pieces. He would--"
The flat voice of a police announcer came from the radio speaker and
interrupted the threat:
"Warning to all cars. Be on the lookout for blue Buick sedan, nineteen
thirty-nine model, red wheels, being driven by Raymond Delancy. Delancy
is wanted for hold-up and murder. Wanted for hold-up and murder, Ray
Delancy, height five feet eight inches, weighing one hundred eighty
pounds--"
Delancy's hand shot out to the radio switch, cutting off the voice of
the announcer. It was impossible! There had been no police at the
Weedham plant. No cops had tailed them. No cops had seen that the gray
sedan which had driven into Burkey's filling station had come out a blue
sedan.
"A clean job, you said?" the woman with the green eyes mocked.
One of the gunmen who crouched on the floor of the rear compartment
cursed quietly and without interruption for nearly a minute. Delancy
tramped nervously on the gas pedal.
"Don't worry, anybody," he said. "The heat's on, and I don't know how
the hell the cops got that way, but it ain't the first time I've given
them the shake. We'll go to Jack Carlson's garage. He'll get us out of
this. It'll cost something, but hell, we've got lots of dough."
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