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  • It was stuffed with old rags from the trunk of the slickback in an approximation of the clothing found buried with the bones.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • AT 8 A.M. Saturday morning Bosch was sitting in his slickback watching a small wood-frame house a block off the main drag in the town of Lone Pine three hours north of Los Angeles in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • When Bosch came out of the trailer Edgar had already put Delacroix into the rear of the slickback.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • There were five squad cars parked there along with a slickback and a narc car.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • A uniformed rent-a-cop stepped out of the gate house, eying the slickback they were in and smiling.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • When he carried the dummy out to the curb he saw Dr. Guyot and his dog standing next to the slickback.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • She looked past him at the slickback he had been driving.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • He didn't want to simply drive up to the hotel in his slickback and risk exposing the operation.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • He put the key to his desk drawer and the key to his slickback down on her blotter.

    City of Bones Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2002

  • He saw two patrol cars glide in and stop near his slickback where Tafero was locked in the back.

    A Darkness More Than Night Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2000

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