Tag: private detective
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Mysterious Private Investigations by Peter DiChellis
Listen to this story on the podcast. Jimmy told me about the burglary almost exactly a year after it happened. Right after we got thrown out of the pawnshop where Jimmy tried to sell the jewelry. He had gone into a house one afternoon, Jimmy told me, with a guy everybody called Howie The Dog…
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Broken Hearts by Laird Long
Listen to this story on the podcast. The house was in the hot part of Hollywood. The part where the sun doesn’t shine tourist-bright and pleasant, but rather hot and oppressive; the part where you’d never dream in your wildest scar-dust dreams that there was a great big, cool blue ocean only five miles away.…
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Other Wishes by Richard Zwicker
Listen to this story on the podcast. Be careful what you wish for. Christmas wreaths, tinsel, and stars lined the smoky walls of the White Hart Pub. Memories of holidays, softened by distance, battled the harder edges of my current situation. The lack of possibilities in my dark flat once again sent me here, where…
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Slice by Tom Barlow
Listen to this story on the podcast. Golf sometimes spoils more than just a good walk. He was seated on the floor, snoring softly, outside my office door when I arrived that morning. He had no appointment. The man appeared to have at least a decade on me, mid-50’s, built like a stump with a…
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Inured By Stephen D. Rogers
Human beings have the remarkable ability to adapt to just about anything. The ferry to Martha’s Vineyard was mostly empty up here on the rooftop level, the sky gray and the wind sharp, the smell of the open water different than that found on the beaches of Cape Cod. Almost all of the other passengers…