Chapter 1 A Body
　　In January they found the girl’s body.
　　They found it in Pine Crest. Pine Crest is a small town about 90 miles from Denver, in the Rocky Mountains. In the past it was famous for silver and gold. But now it’s a place where people go on vacation; they ski there in the winter and walk in the mountains in the summer. Movie stars have homes there. It’s beautiful and it’s quiet when the snow falls. And the snow falls a lot in the winter. Pine Crest isn’t usually the kind of place you find a dead body. Denver’s the place for that, not Pine Crest.
　　Oh, of course sometimes there are skiing accidents, like in all ski resorts. I remember that a young man died about three years ago. He was skiing too fast and he went into a tree. It’s sad, but it happens. But murder – killing someone – well, that’s different.
　　So that January morning my boss, Leo Cohn, Chief of the Denver Police, called me into his office. ‘Girl’s body in Pine Crest, Flick,’ said Leo. Leo was thin and worked too much. He never sat down. Now, he was standing near his desk. ‘They found her yesterday.’
　　‘Oh?’ I said.
　　第1章 尸體
　　一月，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)了女孩兒的尸體。
　　是在潘凱斯特發(fā)現(xiàn)的。潘凱斯特是個小鎮(zhèn)，距丹佛約90 英里，位于落基山脈中。過去它因銀礦和金礦而著名，現(xiàn)在是度假之地；人們冬天在那里滑雪，夏天在山間徒步。電影明星們在那兒也有房子。那里非常漂亮，冬天經(jīng)常下雪，下雪時特別寧靜。潘凱斯特通常不是那種你會發(fā)現(xiàn)尸體的地方。丹佛是，但潘凱斯特不是。
　　哦，當(dāng)然有時候會發(fā)生滑雪事故，所有滑雪勝地都一樣。我記得大概三年前，一名年輕男子在此遇難。他滑得太快，撞到了樹上。這種事可悲，但會發(fā)生。但是謀殺——雇兇殺人——嗯，那就不一樣了。
　　所以一月的那天早上，我的上司，丹佛警察局局長利奧?科恩，把我叫到了他辦公室�！霸谂藙P斯特發(fā)現(xiàn)了一具女孩兒的尸體，弗利克，”利奧說。他身材瘦削，工作操勞。他從不坐著。這會兒，他就站在桌旁�！白蛱彀l(fā)現(xiàn)的�！�
　　“哦？”我說。

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