Snuffed Out by Tim Myers

Author:Tim Myers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery, Mystery & Detective, General, Fiction - General, Mystery fiction, Large type books, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781585475520
Publisher: Center Point Pub
Published: 2005-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

Pearly was just finishing up mounting the last security light when I drove back to River’s Edge.

I said, “They look good.”

“If you don’t mind the irony that we’re putting them up a day late, I suppose you’re right.”

“Do think this is a waste?” The bill for the lights was pretty healthy, but I didn’t feel I’d had any choice.

“No, Harrison, don’t pay any attention to me. I’m in a dark mood, and I’m not afraid to admit it to the world. The only company I’m fit for tonight is my own.”

“I’ll leave you to it, then,” I said as I excused myself.

“Now don’t go off like that. I wasn’t talking about you. It’s the finer gender I’m discussing.”

“If you have problems with the woman in your life, I’m the last one to discuss it with. I’m going through a bit of a dry spell myself.”

“Dry spell? Don’t I wish. I happen to be in the awkward position of having three different women vying for my attention at the moment.”

“Why Pearly, I never would have taken you for a ladies’ man.” I hated to admit it, but I was enjoying some of the man’s discomfort.

“Laugh if you will, but it’s serious enough. Harrison, since my dear sweet wife died, I haven’t been involved with anyone. The hole where she isn’t is still entirely too large. I believed, in my naïveté, that if I dated several ladies at the same time, I wouldn’t be confronted with any one of them getting too close. I wasn’t necessarily trying to keep secret the fact that I was seeing them all, but confound it, they somehow managed to find out about one another anyway, and now they’ve given me an ultimatum. I’m to choose one or lose all three.”

I patted him on the shoulder. “Pearly, I wish you the best, but I wouldn’t trade places with you for anything in the world.”

“I’d say you’re a wise man for that decision alone, Harrison. Well, I’m finished here. What say we give them a test?”

“What do I do?” It was nearly dark, with the hours of sunlight lessening with each passing day.

“Stand here in the shadows and we’ll check them. Let me throw the breaker first.”

He came back a minute later, and I said, “Sorry, it didn’t work.” It was as dark as when he’d left.

“Ah, watch this.” He stepped off the porch and the lights suddenly came on in all their intensity, nearly blinding me.

‘They work on motion sensors,” he explained. “That should scare off any would-be vandals, don’t you think?”

“It should do the trick. I know it will certainly get my attention upstairs.”

“The perils of living at the establishment you own,” Pearly said as he put his tools away. “We each have our own problems, and I trust we haven’t been given more than we can handle.”

“I hope you’re right.”

I left him to his own dilemma and headed upstairs to my apartment. It had been a long day, and though the kayaking had been an

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