The Boy Next Door - Weebly
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To: John Trent <br />
From: Jason Trent <br />
Subject: What novel?<br />
You're writing a novel now? You've shed the shackles of the family fortune, you're<br />
leading a double life, you're trying to solve the mystery behind the old lady's assault, and<br />
you're writing a novel? Who do you think you are, anyway? Bruce Wayne?<br />
To: Jason Trent <br />
From: John Trent <br />
Subject: Batman<br />
Actually, I don't believe Bruce Wayne ever wrote a novel, nor did he shed the shackles of<br />
the family fortune. He used his fortune quite extensively, I believe, in his crime-fighting<br />
efforts. Although he did, obviously, lead a double life. As for solving the mystery behind the<br />
old lady's assault, Bruce would probably have done a better job than I have so far. I just can't<br />
understand it--why would somebody try to bump off a harmless old lady like that? <strong>The</strong> closest<br />
the police have gotten to explaining it is that it was an interrupted robbery--but interrupted<br />
how? And by whom? Mel mentioned something about how the doormen often get her apartment,<br />
15B, and Mrs. Friedlander's apartment, 15A, mixed up. Which got me thinking about what a cop<br />
friend of mine said--that it almost resembled the work of the transvestite killer, except that<br />
the old lady didn't fit the victim profile. I'm kind of wondering if maybe the guy got the wrong<br />
apartment...if Mrs. Friedlander wasn't his intended victim at all. That once<br />
he'd realized his mistake, he tried to go through with it, but couldn't quite do it, and<br />
ended up leaving the job undone. I don't know. It's just something I've been thinking about.<br />
I polled the doormen in the building, and none of them remember sending anyone up to the 15th<br />
floor that night-- although one of them did ask me if I'd gotten my hair cut. Apparently, he'd<br />
seen Max before, and while he recognized that I was not quite the genuine article, he couldn't<br />
make out just how precisely I had changed in appearance. Frightening how we take our security<br />
for granted, isn't it? Anyway, if you're good, I'll send you the first couple chapters of my opus.<br />
It's about a bunch of people who lack any redeeming qualities--kind of like Mim's friends.<br />
You'll like it. Oh my God, I've got to go. I have to be at Film Forum in fifteen minutes--<br />
John