Cops and Robbers – A pinball machine in the rec room of Roarke's Mansion and mentioned in Witness in Death and Survivor in Death.[1][2]
Roarke stood at one of the games, long legs comfortably spread, elegant hands on either side of a long, waist-height box with a glass top. His fingers were tapping rhythmically on what seemed to be large buttons. The top of the box was a riot of lights.[3]
Cops and Robbers, Eve read and had to roll her eyes as a high-pitched siren began to scream. There was an explosion of what she recognized as gunfire, the wild squeal of tires on pavement, and blue and red lights crowned the vertical length of the box as it began to spin. Two silver balls raced and ricocheted under the glass and bells began to clang and lights shot like lasers. The machine ordered him to “Freeze!” in menacing tones, and Roarke responded by zipping his remaining ball up a chute where it banged and bumped against a trio of diamond shapes, then slid into a hole.[1]
It was also the name of a computer game that Feeney was playing in his office in Origin in Death to exercise hand-eye coordination, and to test reflexes and cognitive skills[4] and that Eve and Roarke sent to Sean Lannigan for Christmas in Festive in Death.[5]
References:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), pp. 69-70
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 148
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 69
- ↑ Origin in Death, Chapter 4
- ↑ Festive in Death, Chapter 5