Detective Fiction by William Wells

Author:William Wells [Wells, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Humorous, United States, Humor, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Cozy, Culinary, Hard-Boiled, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime, American, General Humor, Thrillers
ISBN: 9781579624316
Google: 3YA8jgEACAAJ
Amazon: B019P8HCQC
Publisher: Permanent Press
Published: 2016-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

21.

WHO’S ON FIRST?

Bill Stevens flew in from Chicago for one of his periodic visits. I met him at the Fort Myers airport in my Corvette. It would be way too complicated to explain why I was driving one of Sir Reggie’s Hot Wheels; maybe he’d think I was skimming from our bar’s cash register.

I’d told Hansen I needed to spend a few days at home, taking care of business, and to call me if anything new happened. Joe was with me, curled up on the passenger seat. Bill, along with Marisa, was on the short list of people Joe liked.

Bill spotted me waiting at the curb outside baggage claim, waved, and came over carrying a duffel bag slung over his shoulder. He was wearing his usual tropical attire: Ray-Bans, a Cubs hat, a loud Hawaiian shirt, baggy Bulls basketball shorts, and flip-flops.

“Welcome to paradise,” I told him. “You, as always, are a study in sartorial splendor.”

“Back atcha,” he said. “And I mean it.”

I hadn’t thought to change out of Sir Reginald’s clothes. I handed Bill the keys so he could put his duffel bag into the trunk. He did, and then noticed Joe on the seat. Joe looked at him and meowed, which might have meant, “You’re no Hemingway, but you’re all we’ve got.” I lifted Joe onto my lap and Bill got in.

“So, who’s on first?” he said as we drove away.

“Yes,” I answered.

“I mean the fellow’s name.”

“Who.”

“The guy on first.”

“Who.”

“The first baseman.”

And as we tooled along the highway toward Fort Myers Beach, we went though the classic Abbott and Costello baseball routine, “Who’s On First?” word for word, as we had many times before.

Old friends are best friends.

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