All of this could have been avoided...the stench, this desperate attempt to get away. But now it was too late. Jack was once a great detective, he solved the cases as if he had a sixth sense, but that was all far-gone, his special eye, the eye of his mind had been closed by dumb-funded desire. He had fallen into a trap that any halfwit would have avoided. But he violated the first rule: not to be affected by the client in question, now accelerating with a heavy foot on the vista cruiser he remembered how it all began full of despair and regrets.
When she had first entered his office, with the scent of a thousand flowers and dressed somewhere between a whore and a fair maiden he had felt struck at once, he coughed and let out puffs of his ever-hanging cigarette from the corner of his mouth. As she spoke he paid more attention to her red and black dress than her words, but accustomed to this sort of talk he understood what it was all about. Her husband had disappeared a few days ago, and she was convinced that he had run away with some other woman. She wanted pictures so that she could file a divorce. He agreed and started at once dropping the case of the stolen car.