BEg2 ch 20 some more refs

[Michael Bailey]

ERIC LIVES IN A FIFTH-FLOOR walk-up studio in Loisaida,


http://loisaida.org

https://projectpulso.org/2020/02/18/les-history/
Before it was a haven for private university students, Manhattan’s Lower
East Side (LES) was a working-class neighborhood for immigrants from across
the world. In the mid-1900s, the Latinos who lived there called it
“Loisaida”.



Although the foot sex description doesn’t make me want to run out and try
it right away, like Stu Gotz’s  business card, “it may come in handy in
ways neither of us knows right now”



Heidi calls -

“…neither Carmine nor I can understand is why you keep asking us for so
much help getting into the NCIC database, especially if you’re seeing Eliot
Ness and whatever.”


         “Which reminds me actually . . .”

         “What, again? Carmine, not that he begrudges, far from it, is
wondering if possibly you might like to return some of these favors he’s
doing you.”

           “By . . . ?”

         “Well, for instance in connection with The Deseret corpse and this
mafioso you’re apparently also dating concurrently?”

      “Who—Rocky Slagiatt? he’s some kind of a suspect now? What do you
mean, dating?”

         “Well of course we assumed you and Mr. Slagiatt are . . .” Heidi
by now with that trademark smirk all over her voice.

   Maxine drops for a minute into one of Shawn’s visualizing exercises in
which her Beretta, within easy reach, has been transformed to a colorful
California butterfly dedicated, like Mothra, to purposes of peace.

—- Mothra? Peace? Apparently so:
https://godzilla-kaiju-wars-unleashed.fandom.com/wiki/Mothra