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Gone, Baby, Gone (Harper Fiction)
Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
Pages 81 - 100

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(Brought to you by jat impatientreader.com)  Patrick and Angela review the tapes and notice that there's one person that's always in the picture, a man named Chris Mullen. It turns out that Chris Mullen works for a drug dealer named Cheese Olamon, who is in prison. They go back to Lionel's house with Poole and Broussard, and ask Helene about Cheese Olamon. She says that she had run drugs for him occasionally up to Providence and Philadelphia and received cash and drugs in return. They ask her who she gave the drugs to, and she gives them the names of several people, but Poole doesn't believe her. He says he thinks that she took the money from Olamon during a drug bust where he and several other drug dealers were arrested. She finally breaks down and says it was two hundred thousand dollars, and the person helping her was Ray Likanski, and that they left it at a house in Charleston. Poole asks her to try and remember something about the house where they stopped, and she says that it was in an alley with a car up on blocks and a stuffed Garfield cat in the window.

Later on, all five of them drive to Charleston to look for the house. Patrick remembers how it's not the friendliest place in the world to outsiders, especially police. They are almost giving up when suddenly Helene stops them and gets out of the car. She points behind a dumpster, which conceals an alley with a car up on blocks and a stuffed Garfield cat in the window.

Synopsis of Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
Pages 101 - 120

All five of them get out of the car and start walking towards the house. When some construction workers start whistling at Angela and Helene, Poole makes one of them apologize. They get to the front of the house, and a woman in one of the overhanging apartments sticks her head out and asks if they are with animal control. Poole says no, and the woman says she's been calling in regards to the cats.

Broussard asks Helene to open the door to the house so as to negate the need for a warrant, and they go inside. They find a number of cats eager to get out of the house, and then find two nude bodies, a male and female, tied to chairs in the kitchen. They seem to have been there for several days, and the man had taken a gunshot wound to the chest and the woman had her throat cut. They start searching the house, and then Helene comes in and starts watching Jerry Springer on the TV. Poole asks Patrick to take her to the backyard, but before they can get out there she sees the two dead bodies.

They are waiting in the backyard and Patrick starts asking Helene about Cheese Olamon. She says that she didn't cross him, but Patrick and Angie both tell her that he wouldn't hesitate to kill her daughter if it meant getting his money back. Patrick asks her where Cheese and Ray Likanski were when the woman in the house was showing her and Amanda pictures of her trip to Disney World, and Helene says that they were in the back. Patrick and Angela instantly deduce that the money was buried somewhere in the backyard.

With Helene in the house again, Patrick, Angela, Poole and Broussard discuss if they should trade the $200,000 for Amanda McCready, since Broussard found a note near the woman's body in the kitchen. Both Broussard and Poole don't want the Federal officers in on the case, so they decide to dig up the money. Patrick asks Helene if she really understands what's going on. She says she does, but Patrick doesn't believe her and calls her stupid.

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