The passage finishes with an answer to the question and some final instructions for our detective agency to follow. The client’s starting to lose their original cool. Just do your job, okay? Fix this!
“I don’t know,” he replied. “About a week maybe. I’ll come back and collect it… when I can. You give it to nobody else except for me. You understand?”
Between the simplicity of the task and the client’s nervousness, The Falcon’s Malteser’s job seems to fit the ‘it isn’t all it seems’ category.
These examples reveal different levels of information.
Have a read.
“Affected? You m-might say that,” she sobbed, bitterly. “Last week I looked normal. Now, I look like my N-nan. All the details are on that drive. M-make the thing that did this to me fix it, okay?”
“Could be the kidneys, could be the face,” he said simply. “But that’s beside the point. I want you to find out if this is on the level. Do it without getting noticed. Tell me what you find. Can you handle that?”
