Vanishing Point

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Melissa Meith, my expert on legal matters-and mothers!

Bette Lamb, extraordinary nurse, artist, and writer.

And, as always, Bill Pronzini: Dammit, why are you always right?

VANISHING POINT

1. a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction

2. (in the study of perspective in art) that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge

– Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition

“My God, what’s going on down there?” I asked Hy.

He peered through the Cessna’s side window as I banked over Touchstone, our property on the cliffs above the sea in Mendocino County. “Hate to say it, but it looks like a party.”

“Oh, hell, I never should’ve called the office from Reno.”

It did indeed look like a party: tables dotted the terrace, their brightly colored cloths fluttering in the sea breeze; smoke billowed from the barbecue; a crowd of people stood on the mole-humped excuse for a lawn, staring up and waving at the plane.

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