cigarette butt

“If a judge couldn’t be convinced to issue a warrant, then maybe he’d have someone follow North, try to pick up a tossed cigarette butt or coffee cup or something with the guy’s DNA on it, enough to compare it to the black hair found at the first scene and the saliva, if there was some, that would be collected from the envelope sent to WSLJ.”

Shiver

“The detectives, apparently sensing that the sobfest was over, were heading back inside, the smoker flicking his cigarette butt into the gutter.”

Courting Trouble

“Buddy Wilkes’s cigarette butt in our garden the next day.”

Simon & Schuster: The Six Rules of Maybe

“I was curious, but honestly I felt nothing as I looked at the pictures of this skinny, smoked-out guy, hands in his jeans pockets, a cigarette butt dangling from his mouth.”

Land of the Blind

“Even the crimped cigarette butt made sense — discarded by the Contessa di Lacquer-Sforza as she watched from a gondola window.”

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“He flicked away his cigarette butt and entered the rear of the train, resigned that his was a fool’s errand and that she would be located by Chang.”

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“Vince Masuoka was squatting next to the body examining a cigarette butt and Deborah knelt down beside him.”

Dexter in the Dark