The Killing Club by Marcie Walsh; Michael Malone

Author:Marcie Walsh; Michael Malone
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-06-17T18:31:04+00:00

“This whole thing is crazy.” Debbie angrily took the rings off her fingers, then shoved them back on.“I don’t know why you started it, Pudge.

Nobody killed anybody.Ben’s dead.I’m sorry.It was an accident.And Lyall’s dead.A long time ago.Is everybody going insane here?”

Pudge said he was almost sorry that he’d ever called this meeting.

“But somebody stuck death threats in Jamie’s door! I didn’t make that up.

And I think the police ought to find out who it was.”

“Those notes are somebody’s dumb idea of a joke.” Barclay pushed his expensive watch in Pudge’s face as if time itself were Pudge’s fault.

“You know what I can’t believe? I’m even wasting my time here.I was supposed to go to the Messiah with Tricia tonight.”

Debbie snorted, looking deliberately from him to Amanda.“Right, like you’re broken-hearted.You’re such bullshit, Barclay.”

Barclay flung himself back from the table, jabbing his arms through his elegant overcoat.“This is all totally insane.I’m out of here.Amanda, could I see you for a second?”

She turned her back on him.“Sorry, I need to make a phone call.”

Barclay left but Amanda didn’t make a phone call.

So, other than the Italian desserts, which everyone but Amanda ate, the evening had proved a complete bust.Everyone had talked a lot, but overall, I’d say the words most frequently spoken were insane and crazy. I had done my best.I wore my Olympic Magnum in a shoulder holster and took off my ski jacket so they could see the seriousness of the snub-nose.

I told them we all should be careful.I handed out copies of the notes I’d 1 4 0

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gotten, “Death has come to your little town, Sheriff” and “Was that the bogeyman? As a matter of fact ...it was.” I told them there was physical evidence at the Tymosz house that Ben’s accident had been rigged.

I also handed out copies I’d Xeroxed from the Death Books of various murders imagined by each of them during the three years of the Killing Club.I suggested they stay out of the situations they’d once created.There was uneasy laughter at the silliness of their old fantasy crimes: Debbie was going to lock the gym teacher in the steam room till she sweated to death.Amanda, who (unlike Debbie) enjoyed and excelled in sports, was going to kill any number of in-crowd girls any number of athletic ways that would look like accidents—a horse would kick them to death, an arrow would impale them, heavy free weights would fall on them, they’d be trapped under swimming pool covers and be choked by gymnast rings.Barclay was going to pass off the murder of his mother as a drowning.Pudge was going to boil Eileen’s father (who hit her) in the huge deep-fat doughnut vat at the local bakery.Connie was going to in-ject the basketball coach (who had diabetes) with an overdose of insulin.

There appeared to be little concern now that these same homicides could happen to their imaginers.But, then, did I actually think that any of

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