Annoys

Usage examples of nettles.

And of course, if Nettles felt like hiring a detective who was on the scene, I was sure we could work something out.

No matter how much Baroness has won, the record says that she's not going to reproduce herself, which means that Nettles isn't going to be able to gouge more than a thousand apiece for them.

I called Nettles, who didn't seem quite so hot under the collar this time, told him who I was, and got directions to his place.

I couldn't think of a graceful way to suggest that she check out the puppy building too, but Nettles took me off the hook by insisting that she inspect it.

Since the only missing show dog in these parts belongs to Maurice Nettles, they turned it over to me.

I slammed the phone down, counted to 20, then called Nettles and asked him if his offer still held.

I called Jim Simmons back in Cincinnati to tell him I'd arrived and asked him to pass the word along to Pratt and Nettles so their names and numbers wouldn't show up on the hotel's switchboard or billing system.

As long as I was still looking for it, they weren't going to kill me and chance having Vallero's department talk to Pratt and Nettles and Lantz and maybe figure out what it was I was after.

When he was finished I told him that I probably didn't have enough money with me to pay him, but that he could put through a call to Casa Grande and Nettles would make good the bill with a check or a credit card.

He jotted down the number, had me wait while he made the call, seemed satisfied with whatever Nettles told him, and explained patiently that I was alive and reasonably well but in no condition to speak on the phone.

Tell her I'm going to have to stay at her place for a day or two as soon as I get out of Mexico, and that under no circumstances should she tell Nettles or Pratt that she's heard from me.

She mentioned that Nettles had called her right after I left, asking if she'd heard from me, and since she didn't know what to say she had lied and told him that she hadn't.

I also made a mental note to bill Nettles for the one I had lost in Mexico.

I had nothing to say to Maurice Nettles until I got word about his dog.

She was my ace-in-the-hole: no one except Pratt, Nettles and Lantz even knew that I had ever met her.