Dead Man's Hand by Luke Murphy

Author:Luke Murphy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781926997940
Publisher: Imajin Books
Published: 2012-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

Ace got to his office after working the casino floors for hours. He was delayed by a bimbo he’d had sex with in a variety of interesting locations in the club. She seemed to need a little flattery to calm her down—every once in a while a girl threatened to sue him before he had one of his beefy security people talk to them in clear terms.

“Excuse me, Mr. Sanders?” The pretty redhead’s voice quavered and the glasses on the tray she held clinked.

“Yes,” he said, in no mood to talk with this dimwit.

“I just thought you should know.” She glanced around the casino.

“What is it…” he looked at her name tag, “Samantha.”

“The police were in here yesterday asking about you.”

“Really?” Now she had his attention. “What kind of questions?”

“They said they were conducting an investigation on the Doug Grant murder.”

He relaxed. “Thank you, Samantha. Don’t worry, the police questions are routine procedure because Doug Grant was a local casino owner. I’ll look into it further.”

“I can’t lose this job, Mr. Sanders.”

He smiled. “Don’t worry, nothing will happen. I promise.”

He double-timed it to his office. He couldn’t help being a little disturbed. Maybe the cops were not quite as stupid as he assumed.

He was sure that the police must have done the same questioning at his other casino. What bothered him more than the questions was that he’d heard nothing about the cop visit from the Midas and Golden Horseshoe staff. Overpaid idiots! Heads were going to roll! Maybe the redhead wasn’t just a good lay. Maybe she had half a brain too.

He brushed past his secretary. “Hold my calls, Sylvia.”

The more he thought about it, the madder he got. He had been buying off cops since he was a teenager. What had gotten into them now?

The truth was that he had anticipated such questioning, but he didn’t like it and would have stopped the police at both casinos if he’d known. Now, it was time for damage control.

Rather than using his secretary, he dialed a number and a calm female voice answered.

“Mayor Casey’s office.”

“Yes, I would like to speak with Mayor Casey, please. Tell Paul that it’s Ace.”

“One moment, Mr. Sanders, while I put you on hold.”

The mayor came on the line without making him wait for more than a minute.

“Ace, it’s been a long time.”

“Hi, Paul. Yes, it has. Too long.”

“What can I do for you?”

“I need a favor.”

“Shoot.”

“Yesterday, the police interrogated all the employees at both the Golden Horseshoe and the Midas. I was away chairing a meeting with the board of directors and none of my miserable executives told me when the cops came in. I just found out this morning. The cops and their questions are making my people think that maybe I’m a murderer and it’s shaken them up. It’s an outrage and abuse of police authority.”

“I’m sorry, Ace. I had no idea. Why would they suspect you, anyway?”

“Oh, it’s no deep secret that I did not like Grant and wanted to buy the Greek.

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