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    Barbotte
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    Barbotte

    By John McFetridge

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    Montreal 1946. Jackie Robinson is playing for the Royals, the jazz clubs are hopping and the backrooms are full of people losing money at the barbotte tables.

    Nat Lawson is home from the war working for the phone company and moonlighting running 'silent' lines for bookies when Leah Aidelbaum asks him to play private eye.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn McFetridge
    Release dateMay 20, 2010
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      Barbotte - John McFetridge

      Barbotte

      By

      John McFetridge

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2010 by John McFetridge

      Cover illustration by Jean-Pierre Jacquet

      http://www.jeanpierrejacquet.com/

      Montreal 1946

      Nat Lawson had his head down running the phone cable when Sid Aidelbaum said they were taking a lot of Rockhead’s action on Robinson.

      Harvey Gerber, walking through the backroom said, So, spade money’s still money. He looked at Nat and then back to Sid and said, Right?

      Right.

      Gerber walked around like he owned the place, the Bellevue Theatre on Bleury, but he didn’t. Sid did since his father died. He really had no intention of taking it over but when his father got TB and went into the sanitarium he had no choice. Gerber owned the book and the Barbotte room in the back which brought in ten times as much as the Marx Brothers and Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman flicking across the screen out front ever would.

      Gerber said to Sid, That line better run silent.

      Sid said, Sure, Mr. Gerber. Nat here’s the best guy the phone company’s got. No taps on this line, no traces, no records ever, and he looked over at Nat who stood up slow to his full six feet, half a

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