Though thawing around the edges, the corpse was still solid. Huddled in the bottom of the freezer with a wrapped cake under his sprawled knees, his arms were at his sides and his head was back against the edge of the freezer. His skin was tinted blue and frosty from the warm air that mingled with the cold. And, Mickey was forced to concede, frozen solid, the corpse was not a credit to his s*x.
The only comment Delaney made before he went to call in the crime boys was that he must have frozen before rigor set in. This thinly veiled reference to the fact that rigor can sometimes add some emphasis made Mickey choke. While waiting for the reinforcements to arrive, Mickey had ample opportunity to study the corpse and to realize what Luci meant when she said she recognized the corpse but didn’t
