The Movie-Town Murders : The Art of Murder 5 by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon [Lanyon, Josh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FBI thriller-romance, LGTBTQ, MM romance, Mystery-Romance
Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-05-28T18:30:00+00:00

How was it possible that one day in, he was already getting reviews?

Did these kids have nothing better to do? Didn’t they have homework?

Professor desperately needs to reduce caffeine intake.

Professor talks really fast, goes off on tangents, and loses me.

Auditioning for role as college professor in a sitcom that will be canceled after one season. (Nice ass, though.)

Just when you think you know what he’s talking about, you don’t.

Jason wasn’t sure if he was more irritated with Bern for jovially pointing out the reviews or himself for reading them.

As if his “Rate My Professor’s Substitute” scores weren’t bad enough, Professor Bardolf spent Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Stoa facility in Santa Clarita, where the archive now resided. He would not be back on campus until Thursday.

Jason tried to get in touch with Ono’s former teaching assistant, but the young man had moved to Vermont.

His request for Ono’s personnel records was still “going through the channels.”

He spoke to Detective Gil Hickok at LAPD’s Art Theft Detail about Ono’s accusations against Eli Humphrey.

“Ono. I remember her,” Hickok said. “That was a weird one, as I recall.”

Hickok—Hick to his friends—didn’t just head up ATD. He pretty much was ATD. Jason had worked with him on numerous occasions over the past two years, and he liked and trusted Hick.

“How so?”

“Kind of hard to explain. It’s not that we don’t appreciate the help offered by concerned citizens, but my impression was the professor had an ax to grind. You know the dilemma with these very old films.”

Oh yes. Jason knew the dilemma. Some of the existing prints of very old and very rare movies were rescues. Technically, it was not possible to demonstrate ownership because the films had been saved from dumpsters or purchased at swap meets and yard sales or salvaged from old theaters or even taped from late night TV. And being in possession of a film you could not prove ownership of was liable to get you charged with piracy and copyright infringement, depending on what you tried to do with that film.

“My understanding is Ono and Humphrey were both members of some kind of cinephile social club. And that she got kicked out of the club after fingering Humphrey.”

Hick sighed. “Yeah, as the investigation proceeded, she wanted us to fix that for her too.”

“Oops. That’s not how that works.” Jason felt an unexpected twinge of sympathy for Professor Ono, who hadn’t seemed to understand you couldn’t legally force someone to be your friend.

“No. It’s not.”

“What ax do you think she wanted to grind? Do you know?”

“I could never be sure because, of course, everyone clammed up after we got involved. We ended up handing it off to your guys.”

“Right. Where the investigation pretty much hit a wall.”

“Yeah. I think the falling out started over her being excluded from a particular screening.”

“You’re joking.”

“I’m not sure, because her story changed after that initial interview. She did seem to feel she had been deliberately left out of, uh, group activities and that Humphrey was in possession of illegal materials.

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