[Lady Justice 26] - Lady Justice and the Cat by Robert Thornhill

Author:Robert Thornhill [Thornhill, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781544212890
Google: 5n3dAQAACAAJ
Amazon: B06XFLKRQN
Barnesnoble: B06XFLKRQN
Goodreads: 34488670
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty minutes later, the place was swarming with cops.

Detective Blaylock just shook his head when he spotted Kevin and me.

“Williams! Please don’t tell me you’re mixed up in all of this. I thought you were retired.”

“It’s not my fault,” I replied, pointing to the bloody bodies. “They stole my cat.”

He was speechless.

“It’s a long story,” I said with a grimace.

“Then you’d better get started. I’ve got all day.”

I brought him up to date on everything we knew.

“When they killed Forsythe, they took his laptop, backpack and a journal. In the journal, Forsythe wrote that he had recorded the location of his treasure in a microchip which was implanted in his cat. Maggie temporarily adopted the cat to keep him from being euthanized. These scumbags broke into our apartment and stole the cat. The cat also had a VHF transmitter implanted and that’s how we found him at Whitfield’s apartment. You’ll find all of Forsythe’s stuff in Whitfield’s apartment.”

I couldn’t tell whether he was dumbfounded or incensed.

“You just happened to see the evidence when the two of you broke into his apartment.”

“Hey! He had my cat! We heard him meow. Isn’t that probable cause?”

“I should haul both your asses to jail, but nobody would believe this cockamamie story.”

“Don’t get your knickers in a twist, Detective,” Kevin said. “You guys were dead in the water on Forsythe’s murder and now it’s all wrapped up in a tidy little bow.”

“Swell!” he said, pointing to the bodies, “Looks like we’ve traded one unsolved murder for two.”

“Yeah,” Kevin grimaced. “There is that!”

“I don’t suppose either of you super sleuths have any idea who iced these guys?”

We both shook our heads. “Not a clue.”

“Maybe that will help,” Ox said, pointing to a surveillance camera. “The manager just arrived. We can review the footage in his office.”

The manager was cooperative, and soon we were looking at the murder scene on video tape.

“There’s the two cat-nappers,” I said, as a car pulled into view. “See, the back window’s shot out courtesy of Dad and Bernice.”

“Jesus!” Blaylock muttered.

The two opened the unit and went inside.

“Damn!” Blaylock said. “Because of the camera angle, we can’t see inside.”

A few minutes later, a black van appeared. Three men with guns drawn piled out and entered the unit.

The next time we saw them, they were dragging a safe to the back of the van.

“Crap!” Blaylock said with disgust. “We didn’t get the actual murders on tape, but there’s no doubt what happened in there. Look how they’re struggling with that safe. It must weigh a ton.”

“It’s a Rhino,” I replied, “and it weighs close to two hundred pounds. There’s a tag on the floor inside.”

Blaylock actually grinned. “You guys don’t miss much, do you?”

“Hey,” Kevin replied. “Super sleuths. Those were your words if I remember correctly.”

“Anybody recognize those three mopes?” he asked.

Unfortunately, none of the three had turned to face the camera.

“Hard to tell from the backside,” I replied.

Once the safe was loaded in the van, and the door to the unit pulled shut and locked, two of the men entered the van and the third drove Whitfield’s car.

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