Dog is in the Details by Neil S. Plakcy

Author:Neil S. Plakcy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, dogs, golden retrievers, bucks county, pennsylvania
Publisher: Neil Plakcy
Published: 2018-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

15 – Call Me Al

I needed to speak to Rick about what I’d found, so I called him as I left the library in Trenton. “How would you feel about me bringing over pizza when I come for Rochester?” I asked.

“That would be awesome. I’m just wrapping up here at work and I don’t have the energy to fix anything.”

Rick had just gotten home when I arrived with the pizza, and he quickly pulled out the last two Dogfish Head Firefly Ales from the six pack. The dogs circled around us as if they hadn’t eaten in days, and as we ate we both fed them pieces of crust.

I told him about speaking with Akiva the librarian. “So that might explain what brought Joel to Trenton. But something sidetracked him and I think it has to do with the documents he found at the old shul.” I munched a slice of pizza, the crust chewy, the toppings as gooey and delicious as I remembered. “You find anything interesting today?” I asked after a while.

“I did some research on the bus ticket in Joel Goldberg’s pocket,” Rick said. “I wanted to see if I could figure out where he’d been. I called a buddy of mine on the Trenton PD and he told me that the police stopped Joel in Hiltonia because he was making a racket and banging on the door of a house in the neighborhood. He told the officers some story about needing a way to get to the train station and so they took him to the station in West Trenton and dropped him there.”

“That makes sense,” I said. “He had looked up bus schedules at the library, so he knew there was a bus from the station that would take him to Shomrei Torah. Do you know the address where he was banging?”

“It was a neighbor who called, and by then Joel had moved down the street, so they don’t have an exact address.”

“But they have the neighbor’s address, right? You could contact the neighbor and find out who was being harassed.”

“I can get it from my buddy but it means calling in a favor.”

“I do. You ever track down that skinhead that Buddha McCarthy mentioned?”

“Yeah. He ripped off a convenience store in West Trenton the day after he had his fight at the Rescue Mission. Been in jail ever since. And surprisingly enough, his name really is John White. At least that’s what’s on his ID.”

By the time we were finished the dogs had eaten so much crust, and bits of sausage, that they weren’t interested in kibble. We took them out for a long walk around Rick’s neighborhood. Rochester was eager to investigate all the different smells and I kept having to tug him along to keep up with Rascal who was, as my father would have said, on a “mission: pishin’.”

I took Rochester home soon after that, stopping at the mailboxes to pick up my mail. There was a letter from Daniel Epstein,

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