Dead Man's Game by Paul Carr

Author:Paul Carr [Carr, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Marilyn Coe laid the clutch on the sofa next to her. “We had an ongoing investigation of Chan and others, and I couldn’t tell you about it at the time. When Riley Gunn got murdered, my boss was afraid you would come in and trample on everything we’ve set up.”

“How long?”

“What?”

“How long have you been investigating Chan?”

“Couple of weeks.”

Dalton felt his face heat up. “So I guess you already know a lot of what I’ve been snooping around trying to learn the last few days.”

“Not necessarily. We were only interested in the drug connection.”

“Yeah? I guess you didn’t care that the drug connection might’ve played a part in the murders.”

She gave him a pouting lip. “Well…I’m sorry, but we needed to nail Chan, and I couldn’t bring you in on it. I asked, but the boss declined.”

Dalton wondered if that was the truth, or if it was just her way of putting him off. “What do you know about Chan’s hooks into Redgunn.”

“We knew Hess was one of Chan’s dealers and that he was a former roadie with Redgunn. We were watching him, but didn’t have eyes on his place the night he got murdered. We assumed he was in bed by midnight and our guys left.”

“So how did you know Colin Casey?”

One night Hess strolled into the bar with him, so we decided to put the microscope on him, too. I got the job at the bar as a cover, because Hess was a regular there. I’ve tended bar before, and the owner hired me on the spot.”

“I noticed he lets you come and go as you please.”

“Yeah, I think he has a crush on me.” Her tone sounded offhand, as if that happened pretty often. “Anyway, Hess and Casey came in again after I’d been there a few days, and I flirted a little with Casey. He asked me out to dinner one night and I went. I prodded him several times about drug availability, but he didn’t let anything slip. Then the subject of the party came up, and he wanted me to go with him. I thought that was my chance to see inside the band and figure out who else might be involved.”

“Were you successful?”

“No. But we’re pretty sure somebody besides Hess was dealing, and maybe still is.”

“Somebody in the band?”

“That’s our suspicion. The best we can determine, it all began when they returned from Asia. Chan had been here for a while before that, but didn’t show up on our radar until we arrested a dealer up in Marathon. He told us Chan killed his supplier and took over their territory. He said he’s bringing in most of the cocaine in South Florida now. The guy we got tonight is just one of them. We suspect there’s more, but we got lucky catching him since he’s one of Chan’s employees and was driving his vehicle.”

It made sense that there was somebody else involved, and it could be Gunn and Hess’s killer. Although Dalton had guessed Chan was pulling the strings, he thought it was only because of the lawsuit.

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