Avon Calling! Season One by Hayley Camille

Author:Hayley Camille [Camille, Hayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fun, superhero, WW2, romance, fatale, Women, protagonist, noire, gangster, thriller, crime, historic, justice, femme, Female, vigilante, murder
ISBN: 9780648353706
Publisher: SpearPoint Press
Published: 2018-08-30T22:00:00+00:00

It was late afternoon, when Sergeant Jacob Lawrence parked outside a handsome double story house in a quiet, leafy street. His notebook was heavy with dead leads – almost every Avon representative in New York City now bore a line crossed through her name. He’d been offered endless cups of tea and cakes, questioned on his bachelorhood (he supposed in the hopes of securing a new customer in his non-existent wife), scolded for impolite inferences regarding the bordello, slapped and propositioned. He’d found samples of aftershave and toiletries slipped into his pockets (after the insistence that Joe DiMaggio was an avid fan) and he’d even had one lady burst into tears at the sight of him. He was thoroughly fed up.

Not long before Jacob began his morning rounds, he’d sent Parker off to finish the paperwork on the latest stash of drugs they’d found. The usual ‘sample’ box of heroin and Benzedrine pills along with an Avon Calling! card with handwritten note to an obscure address, had turned up on the station steps at noon one day not long after they’d pulled Vince Carelli out of the junkyard. A sizable stash of heisted crates had been left for him in the unused rail shed which turned out to be the place where the heist itself had taken place, confirming Jacob’s suspicions. Someone was clearly trying to make his job easy for him. The crates had since been identified as the same ones that had been stolen, though, strangely, only half of the convoy had been recovered. Going on past experience, Jacob fully expected the other half would turn up soon enough, but what preceded that recovery was what he was now trying so desperately to prevent. Another grisly underground homicide was the last thing he needed. Every day seemed to drag longer in overtime and he still felt no closer to cracking this case. He’d questioned bookies and bordello’s, snowed up snitches and the skids that filled the cracks of pavement on the streets at night, all in the hopes that someone had seen something unusual. Heck, he’d almost been tempted to put the screws on every hobo in Central Park. Surely, no-one could transport dozens of crates from one side of the city to the other without leaving some sort of trail.

Guilt and disappointment weighed heavy on his heart. Over the past fortnight, he’d canceled every date with Adina that they’d set. She was such a breath of fresh air, smart and witty, always a step ahead of him. But, just as he’d predicted on their first date, his job had already taken a heavy toll on their burgeoning relationship. She said she understood, as busy as she was with her own work, but he knew she’d been disappointed. Worse yet, Adina had arrived at his office in a professional capacity only the day before, shadowing the footsteps of her boss, General Brandway, who was the Deputy Port Commander of the Transportation and Overseas Supply Divisions for the biggest New York Embarkation Camp.

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