Death of a Dying Man by J. M. Redmann
Author:J. M. Redmann [Redmann, J. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, Fiction, Lesbian, Contemporary, Romance, General
ISBN: 9781602820753
Google: ObgWOQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1602820759
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2009-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Fifteen
As I was putting away my lunch trash, I started thinking about garbage. Ye shall know them by what they throw out. I wondered if someone had gone back to take the trash out. I stood for another few minutes in the air-conditioning, then finished clearing up my lunch stuff and got some latex gloves and a couple plastic bags for any booty I might find.
And I was back out in the heat, driving by Damon’s house again. No sign of anyone. I didn’t see it at first, but a small white trash bag sat off to the side of the stairs. I cursed myself for not thinking of this earlier, because I couldn’t be sure that bag hadn’t been here.
I quickly snagged it and threw it in the trunk of my car. It’s not stealing to take something that someone is throwing away, but better not to have to answer questions. As I was driving away, I caught sight of someone who looked a lot like Bruce Payne coming up the block. I stayed at the stop sign to see if he went to Damon’s place, but a big truck pulled up behind me, blocking my view and forcing me to proceed through the intersection. I drove back around the block, but he was gone and I could see nothing beyond closed doors and shuttered windows.
I drove back to my place and again parked under the shady tree. I took the bag out of my trunk and placed it on the sidewalk. After putting on the gloves, I opened it, then the empty garbage bag I had brought, and started moving the contents of one bag to the other.
It was mostly just garbage—banana peels, some frozen dinner trays, plastic water bottles, junk mail. It’s bad enough to deal with my own junk mail, but this was someone else’s—smeared with garbage and hard to read far enough to be sure it wasn’t something useful. The bathroom trash had obviously been dumped in here as I found a layer with an old toothpaste tube, used-up deodorant, several cardboard toilet-paper tubes, a few miles of dental floss, the usual bathroom detritus. At least it was a man’s bathroom and I didn’t run into any used tampons. Garbage diving isn’t one of the more glamorous parts of PI work.
Bored, I was hot and getting hotter. I chunked a half-eaten apple into the second bag, then noticed a tag of plastic stuck to it. Peeling it off—there are reasons gloves are required for this activity—I realized it was a wrapper for a suppository. Obviously it had to be anal, not vaginal. I tossed it back to the apple. And I had thought that tampons were the worst I’d have to worry about.
At the bottom was a stack of papers, covered by chicken bones and the fast-food wrappers that had held them—the chicken, not the documents. The pages were stuck together with various garbage gunk. I leafed through business papers, copies, things like invoices for the bars.
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