No Rest for the Departed by Nancy Herriman

Author:Nancy Herriman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical fiction, san francisco, old west, family secrets, american west, nurse, amateur sleuths, police detective, cold case, 1860s
Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing

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Owen turned the corner onto Mr. Greaves’s street. He’d been to Mrs. Davies’s house, where Addie had told him she’d gone with Mrs. Hutchinson to a party at the Chases’ place. Which sounded a bit like a pair of Daniels marching into the lion’s den, only without the part where God might save them.

He had to tell somebody what he’d learned about Judith Whelan, though. He just wished he hadn’t had to wait until after he’d finished up at Mr. McCann’s warehouse and it had turned dark and the fog spilling over the western hills made everything seem menacing. He wasn’t all that comfortable with darkness anymore. Uneasy, even though Mr. Greaves’s neighborhood was pretty safe—Owen had passed a patrolling cop not a block ago, in fact—and Owen had spent his first months in San Francisco living in trash-strewn alleyways alongside rats. He should be hardened against evening sounds and shadows. But he wasn’t.

He trotted up the road, unnerved by how few folks were around, doors and windows locked against the night, even at the butcher’s. The only resident appeared to be a stray dog that had been following him for a while. He’d had to shoo it off several times already, but Owen could hear it padding behind him again. Durned pest.

He was almost at Mrs. Jewett’s place. Was that Mr. Greaves up ahead, climbing the steps to his landlady’s?

“Mr. Greaves!” Owen called out.

He hesitated, looking Owen’s direction. Wait. That wasn’t Mr. Greaves. Didn’t move like him and wasn’t tall enough, neither. Either. Owen didn’t like what he was up to, though. Moving stealthily. Not good.

Owen started running toward him. “Hey, you! Wait there!”

Just then, a man wearing a long duster coat bolted from between two houses across the street and raised his arm. The barrel of a pistol glinted in the streetlight, followed by the crack of gunfire. Dropping the other fellow to the ground.

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