Jake Randolph in "The Eternal Night" Pt. 45

"So," Sperry continued, "tell me what you know about this situation, Randolph."

"Well," I said, "Roxie...Miss Harrison...said that you were resurrecting Paragon Pictures and that you were doing a film adaptation of the Derek Slade novels. Mason here was playing Slade and wanted to get training from a real detective. She asked around and apparently my name came up."

"But you're not a detective anymore, are you?" Sperry asked.

I hate people who ask questions they already know the answer for. It seems pretentious.

"No," I said and just let it go at that.

Sperry sat there staring at me...