Bill Hodges

In the course of their investigation, Detectives K. William Hodges and Peter Huntley interviewed a great many of those who had been present on that foggy morning, including all the wounded survivors. Martine Stover had been the toughest to talk to, and not only because her disfigured mouth made her all but impossible to understand for anyone except her mother.

K. William Hodges is the full name of retired detective Bill Hodges; the letter address and job-fair investigation identify him.

After a moment of shocked silence, she says, “Oh, no, that can’t be. You’ve made a mistake, Detective Hodges.” He doesn’t bother to correct her, because this is interesting. “Why do you say that?” “Because they’re happy.

Hodges speaks with a woman who addresses him by his detective title.

1 Kermit William Hodges—plain old Bill, to his friends—drives along Airport Road with the windows rolled down and the radio turned up, singing along with Dylan’s “It Takes a …

The narrator explicitly joins the full name and Bill while depicting him driving.

“Dis here black boy goan tote dat barge an’ lift dat bale, Massa Hodges!” Then back to Jerome, just like that. “Who’s mowing your lawn? It looks pretty good. Not Jerome Robinson quality, but pretty good.”

Jerome jokes directly with Hodges about his lawn.

Look who’s talking, Holly thinks, remembering fights she had with her own mother, especially once she started working with Bill Hodges. There had been some doozies after she and Bill had almost gotten killed while chasing after a doctor who had been possessed—there was really no other way to put it—by Brady Hartsfield.

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Since she’s the boss—a thing she still finds hard to believe—that isn’t difficult. Today Pete Huntley, her partner in the business since Bill Hodges died, is out trying to track down a runaway at the city’s various homeless shelters.

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The last thing appears to be an actual letter—a fairly thick one, by the feel—in a business-sized envelope. It is addressed to Det. K. William Hodges (Ret.) at 63 Harper Road. There is no return address. In the upper lefthand corner, where one usually goes, is his second smile-face of the day’s mail delivery.

K. William Hodges is the full name of retired detective Bill Hodges; the letter address and job-fair investigation identify him.

Billy Hodges is good to go.” Holly throws herself into his arms and gives him a hug. Hodges hugs her back and kisses her cheek. With her short hair and her face fully revealed—for the first time since her childhood, although he doesn’t know this—he can see her resemblance to Janey.

Billy Hodges is an address to Bill Hodges, explicitly identified in the same Holly/Cassie Sheen circle.

She deletes it, then thinks, She really might not know who Lewis Black is, and puts the line back in. These sorts of things torture her. Bill Hodges, who founded Finders Keepers, once told Holly that she over-empathized with people, and when Holly replied, You say that like it’s a bad thing, Bill said, In this business, it can be.

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… Hodges—’ ‘Detective Hodges,’ she corrected. ‘Retired.’ Ralph nodded. ‘In addition to that, you and Detective Hodges saved a girl who was kidnapped by a crazy guy named Morris Bellamy. Bellamy was killed during the rescue. You were also involved in a shootout with a …

Ralph recalls Holly and Hodges saving the girl from Morris Bellamy.

My name is Alec Pelley, and I was trying to reach Bill Hodges. I worked with him on a case a few years back, just after I retired from the State Police. There was a bad actor named Oliver Madden who stole an airplane from a Texas oilman named—’ ‘Dwight Cramm.

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