"Saturday morning was blue again, with small white clouds and sunlight spilling across the hills. But a wind came streaking from the Bay. Stefanik pulled up the collar of his topcoat as he walked from the parking lot." (12, p. 113)
"[Yamamura] continued across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco. The waters were grey-green, white-spattered; a ship entering the Gate rocked in their unrest. The wind shoved hard at Yamamura's little car and vibrated its metal. But overhead was an enormous blue, and the city towers lifted with a sharpness of outline more natural to mountaintops than the ocean fringe.
"Saturday afternoon traffic was light on this side..." (14, p. 130)
I continue to be more interested in such descriptions than in who committed the murder. Stefanik seems to be a more frequent viewpoint character than the detective, Yamamura. The reader knows that Stefanik really did find the body and is not just pretending to have found it.
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Kaor, Paul!
I too noticed how it seems to be other characters than Yamamura who seem to be most often the view point characters in these three mysteries by Anderson. And I remember thinking that was rather odd compared to how Doyle, Chesterton, Sayers, Carr, Stout, would have done it.
Sean
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