THE HIGH TOWER - 1993 - 案情调查

Aug 6, 2026

The narrative follows LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates a missing person case connected to Marie Gesto. Evidence is uncovered inside a narrow garage beneath Hollywood’s High Tower apartments, including Marie’s folded clothing, riding gear, and groceries, shifting the case from Missing Persons to Hollywood Homicide. Bosch inspects the vehicle carefully with Forensics in mind, formulates new leads based on possible stops near Beachwood Canyon, and coordinates next steps with fellow officers as the investigation escalates.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages389

Reading Time9 h 59 min

AccessFree to download

案发现场与初步线索

在狭窄车库中的发现

物证与调查方向的转变

前往高塔公寓的下一步行动

This is for Jane Wood—who keeps Harry Bosch well fed and close to the heart. Many, many thanks. THE HIGH TOWER 1993 IT WAS THE CAR they had been looking for. The license plate was gone but Harry Bosch could tell. A 1987 Honda Accord, its maroon paint long faded by the sun. It had been updated in ’92 with the green Clinton bumper sticker and now even that was faded. The sticker had been made with cheap ink, not meant to last. Back when the election was a long shot. The car was parked in a single-car garage so narrow it made Bosch wonder how the driver had been able to get out. He knew he would have to tell the Forensics people to be extra diligent while checking for prints on the outside of the car and the garage’s inner wall. The Forensics people would bristle at being told this but he would become anxious if he didn’t. The garage had a pull-down door with an aluminum handle. Not good for prints but Bosch would point that out to Forensics as well. “Who found it?” he asked the patrol officers. They had just strung the yellow tape across the mouth of the cul-de-sac which was made by the two rows of individual garages on either side of the street and the entrance of the High Tower apartment complex. “The landlord,” the senior officer replied.“The garage goes with an apartment he’s got vacant, so it’s supposed to be empty. A couple days ago he opens it up because he’s got to store some furniture and stuff and he sees the car. Thinks maybe it’s somebody visiting one of the other tenants so he lets it go a few days, but then the car stays put and so he starts asking his tenants about it. Nobody knows the car. Nobody knows whose it is. So then he calls us because he starts thinking it might be stolen because of the missing plates. Me and my partner have got the Gesto bulletin on the visor. Once we got here we put it together pretty fast.” Bosch nodded and stepped closer to the garage. He breathed in deeply through his nose. Marie Gesto had been missing ten days now. If she was in the trunk he would smell it. His partner, Jerry Edgar, joined him. “Anything?” he asked. “I don’t think so.” “Good.” “Good?” “I don’t like trunk cases.” “At least we’d have the victim to work with.” It was just banter as Bosch’s eyes roamed over the car, looking for anything that would help them. Seeing nothing, he took a pair of latex gloves out of his coat pocket, blew them up like balloons to stretch the rubber and then pulled them onto his hands. He held his arms up like a surgeon coming into the operating room and turned sideways so that he could try to slide into the garage and get to the driver ’s door without touching or disturbing anything. He slid into darkness as he moved into the garage. He batted spider threads away from his face. He moved back out and asked the patrol officer if he could use the Maglite on his equipment belt. Once he was back in the garage he turned the light on and put its beam through the windows of the Honda. He saw the backseat first. The riding boots and helmet were on theseat. There was a small plastic grocery bag next to the boots with the Mayfair Supermarket insignia on it. He couldn’t tell what was in the bag but knew that it opened an angle on the investigation they hadn’t thought of before. He moved forward. On the front passenger seat he noticed a small stack of neatly folded clothing on top of a pair of running shoes. He recognized the blue jeans and the long-sleeved T-shirt, the outfit Marie Gesto was wearing when last seen by witnesses as she was heading to Beachwood Canyon to ride. On top of the shirt were carefully folded socks, panties and bra. Bosch felt the dull thud of dread in his chest. Not because he took the clothing as confirmation that Marie Gesto was dead. In his gut he already knew that. Everybody knew it, even the parents who appeared on TV and pleaded for their daughter ’s safe return. It was the reason why the case had been taken from Missing Persons and reas

FAQs

谁发现了这辆车，并因为什么原因报警？

车是房东发现的。车停在他一处空置公寓对应的车库里，他起初以为可能是租客来访，但车一直不动且车牌丢失，便联系警方怀疑被盗。

Bosch在车里最先注意到了什么关键信息？

Bosch看到了后座上的骑行靴和头盔，以及装有物品的塑料购物袋，随后在前排乘客座发现了折叠整齐的衣物和内衣等。

为什么Bosch会确定案件需要从失踪人口转为命案线索？

衣物和随身物品被以非常整齐的方式摆放，这种细节触发了Bosch的强烈直觉，让他确信Marie Gesto的命运已不再是单纯失踪。

Bosch根据衣物与地点提出了什么调查线索？

他推测Marie可能在前往骑马地点的途中，经过Beachwood Canyon附近的Mayfair一带停留过，因此新的线索可能来自沿途寻找目击者。

Aug 6, 2026

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