

Gum Belle, Episode XVIRicketts turned his head. Sal Jenkins stood at his back, a big, bat-shaped shadow in the Skulls unnatural gloom, a Thompson submachine gun rock-heavy and stock-still in his hands.Gum Belle, Episode XVI
Get up. Slow. Hands high.
Ricketts did so. He didnt have much choice: Jenkins knew him too well to risk trying anything. He smiled, ignoring the pain in his rent cheek. I should have known youd be waiting for me outside. Stood against the wall between the two windows, right?
Yup. Had to leave the other window unlatched. Was afraid youd pick it and get wise.  


Gum Belle, Episode XVAs she padded across the living-room carpet, approached the stairs to the first platform, Madame forced herself to concentrate. Her mind, which was so skilled at organizing and recalling information, had earned her a high place in the Triads, and she put it to good use now running through what she knew of her foe.Gum Belle, Episode XV
First: the Pao Pao Xiaojie was formless, but, apart from her tendency for ridiculous costumes, she had shown little talent for mimicry. It was unlikely, then, that she would disguise herself as a poster, or anything more than the simplest article of furniture
The carpet shifted beneath her feet. Mada


Gum Belle Episode XIV, Part IIThe wind around Tomorrow Tower was tricky, and it took a few tries before Gum Belle could find the right angle for a proper landing. In the meantime, she scoped out Helmut Arcturions penthouse.Gum Belle Episode XIV, Part II
True to the schematics, the top of Tomorrow Tower resembled a smoked-glass pyramid. There were none of the usual tourist traps here, no coin-operated telescopes, observation decks, or photo platforms for those family shots against the skyline. There was only a small walkway around the edge that had a decorative-looking iron railing, presumably to keep Arcturions ditzy lady friends (such as that tart Kolodka) from taking a wron


Gum Belle Episode XIV, Part IStupid killer radio, she muttered as she backed away to join the others in the corner, peering into every patch of darkness and flinching at every shadow and rustle. No combination, he said. How could I be so dumb --?Gum Belle Episode XIV, Part I
A stealthy, springy squeak from above was her only warning. Gum Belle looked up, just in time to see the spider release its cutlery claws from the plaster ceiling and fall on them, its legs reversing in mid-air to carve the Phyllis the secretarys face off. Gum Belle drew herself up, threw back her shoulders, puffed out her chest --
The spider slammed into a tough, rubbery
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