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Click here"Yes. Anders's warning to you didn't seem to make an impression, so I'm reiterating it. Walk away and let all the noise die down. You do that and we leave you alone. It's in our best interest. More deaths means more spotlights shining our way. If you don't back off, though ... well, you saw what happened to Jordan. You're going to get nothing from Jordan's house, and you had nothing concrete before. That adds up to nothing. Give it up as a lost cause."
Did I believe they'd leave me alone? Not a chance. Yeah, they wanted the spotlights to die down. And then later, on some dark night, I'd be in the wrong quiet place at the wrong quiet time.
"You know, Bertram? The only thing that would give me greater pleasure than seeing you doing a perp-walk to a squad car is putting a bullet between your eyes. Yeah, I saw what you did to Regan, you sick fuck. I'm going with option one right now because I'm a Boy Scout, but give me just one reason to and I'll pull the trigger."
It felt good to be the one hanging up for once. I ignored the look from Murray.
We got nothing from Regan's. The computers in the outer office were gone. Both outer and inner offices were stripped of every piece of paper. The safe door hung open, revealing emptiness. We searched through the rest, but other than an extensive porn collection, there was nothing.
The phone rang again. Another number I didn't know.
"Mr. Morgan?"
"Yes."
"This is Rachel Bertram. I found some business papers. I won't give them to you because I'm not handing you any physical evidence against Richard. But I will give you dates and destinations."
Finally! Something's going right and we might get ahead of the game for a moment.
The final chapter will be be out shortly. And because it happened in this chapter, here's the cover again. —C
- COMMENTS
bajohn01about 2 years agoGreat Story. I know it was written awhile ago but definitly is a great mystery.
Purplefizzover 2 years agoWhat a great story! I started because I was curious about how “Mike Hammer” it would be, but I think unwittingly @Chasten has let this story get a character that’s a bit more contemporary than Spillane, I know writing a story is like that - it evolves a personality all of its very own! I’m seriously hoping the last chapter comes along soon, I’d love to see if it’s playing out as I thought (Mrs Bertram is the hidden partner?). Many thanks for writing and posting, cheers Ppfzz.
rubyjac1over 2 years agoWriting a mystery or trying to disseminate what a real mystery writer will come up with is not my cup of tea. Third strike; I'm out. Chas, this story is just the greatest. Not going to speculate how he will get to Bertram, but he will.
The lack of a space before the guns caliber is back. I came across a similar problem with a word processing program before I retire. It was a "Word Perfect" software clone and the problem lies within the spell/grammar check partition of the software. An option allows you to not have a "." (period) snap-to the last letter typed. We dealt with the decimal version of the "." and had the same problem you're having. Within the spell/grammar option menu is another drop down menu that allows you to uncheck (or slide to "off" depending on your OS) the period snap-to parameter. But it's not that big of a deal in this story. Except to you, maybe. Or editors.
Again I'm waiting until the end has ended and not speculate. Good luck to me with that. Thank you again for sharing your immense talent with us.
