BE Chap 18

[Mark Kohut]

"Someday you'll think it was fate" [a little conspiracy of the universe
joke?}.....Shawn says as she introduces
Maxine to Conkling Speedwell, who does Nasal Forensics as Maxine
does Forensic Accounting and she smells attraction as he can smell her.

(If women [and men] want to be 'known' in any relationship, this guy knows
her special smellness--
and it is a turn-on, "Uh-oh:, she says.....may be more of a turn-on than
dick size since she isn't sure
of that at first. Size or beginning stages for him?) She pushes their
coffee date immediately. ....

they go to the scene of the crime
at The Deseret after a swim and visible erection attraction being
reciprocated.

Lester had been killed with a knife blade (sans handle)
into his skull like certain Russian hits....Or hits done to look like
Russian hits.....

And just like the crimes investigated in rich Santa Barbara in ATD, this
smells. Like money?

PS. beginning to see BE as another joke take, not unlike Inherent Vice, on
'conspiracy theories'.