The fact that the State of Colorado bad elected to bring Annie to trial at all, given such a slight chance of conviction on the evidence, left Paul with one assumption and one certainty.
No more waking up next to a big blonde or redhead he had picked up somewhere the night before - a lass who usually looked like a queen at midnight and a goblin at ten the next morning. The fact that he had been searching for traces of a hotshot writer named Paul Sheldon was reported, but Kushners disappearance had not been linked, even speculatively, with Pauls own.