[Lady Justice 20] - Lady Justice and the Broken Hearts by Robert Thornhill

Author:Robert Thornhill [Thornhill, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Humour
ISBN: 1511769580
Amazon: B00W8E335K
Barnesnoble: B00W8E335K
Goodreads: 25384404
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

That night I was exhausted and went right to sleep, but around two in the morning Mr. Bladder was needing my attention. After taking care of business, I couldn’t go back to sleep.

My mind wandered back to my stay at the hospital and I remembered being awake at about this same time and walking the deserted halls with Kim. I remembered thinking at the time, that security on the floor was practically non-existent, and that pretty much anyone could come and go as they pleased.

Then it occurred to me. I had been looking for something that would tie someone in the hospital to the deaths. Maybe it had nothing to do with hospital staff or procedures. Maybe someone was coming off the street to do these people in. But who, why and how?

I started thinking about the ‘how.’ A few years earlier, a man who called himself Thanatos was practicing euthanasia in Kansas City. I had been recruited to go undercover since I was the closest thing they had to an old dying man.

Thanatos used a machine invented by the infamous Dr. Kevorkian, called the Thanatron. This device involved an individual pushing a button that released drugs or chemicals that would end his or her own life. It had three canisters or bottles mounted on a metal frame. Each bottle had a syringe that connected to a single I.V. line in the person's arm. The first bottle contained ordinary saline, or salt water. Another contained a sleep-inducing barbiturate called sodium thiopental, and the third a lethal mixture of potassium chloride, which immediately stopped the heart.

As I thought about it, it occurred to me that every heart patient at the hospital was already hooked to a saline drip and had most likely been given something to help them sleep. The only other thing needed to complete the Thanatron was the potassium chloride which could be purchased online at Amazon or at any health food store.

Its effect would be to stop the heart and since that’s exactly why these people were in the hospital, no one would notice.

I was satisfied that I had figured out the ‘how,’ but was totally lost as to the ‘who’ and the ‘why.’

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