X is for Xmas: A Christmas Mystery MEGAPACK ® by Ron Goulart & Lillian Stewart Carl & Meredith Nicholson & John Gregory Betancourt

Author:Ron Goulart & Lillian Stewart Carl & Meredith Nicholson & John Gregory Betancourt [Goulart, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: mystery, detective, murder, Christmas, crime
ISBN: 9781479407279
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Even as Johnny Regan raced toward the fence there was the sound of a car motor roaring into life. Then the motor sound was quickly fading in the distance.

Slattery drew up, swore vehemently. “Lost them!” he said.

Johnny Regan saw his friend’s limply hanging arm.

“You need attention,” he said. He started toward the studio building.

“Where’s old Pete?” he asked abruptly. He had just remembered the watchman.

“He’s all right,” Ben Slattery said. His voice sounded suddenly tired. “Those two guys jumped us as we headed toward Pete’s office. I shoved Pete on ahead of me inside the doorway. I might have banged his head or something. I was pretty rough about it.”

* * * *

Just then, in the doorway of a small building just inside the gates, old Pete himself appeared. He seemed to limp more than usual, and he was rubbing his forehead.

“You all right, old-timer?” Slattery asked, more worried about the elderly watchman than he was about himself.

Pete nodded. “I’ve called the police. I guess I got a little dizzy. I banged my head on the wall when you pushed me inside the doorway.” He looked at Big Ben Slattery and smiled, though he was still trembling. “Thank you for saving my life.”

He reached out, touched the officer’s arm gratefully, not noticing that the arm dangled strangely. Slattery involuntarily winced.

“Ben needs some attention,” Regan said swiftly, and urged his friend toward the small office. At the same time, within the long block beyond the gates, police sirens were already sounding shrilly in the night.

Regan was thinking that this was a fine thing indeed. Old Pete had had to call the police, and here he, Johnny Regan, was the police! He had certainly bungled things in a fine way!

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